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On 25th March 1625 Anne Harrison Lady Fanshawe was born to John Harrison (age 35).
On 18th May 1644 Richard Fanshawe 1st Baronet (age 35) and Anne Harrison Lady Fanshawe (age 19) were married in Wolvercot, Oxfordshire.
On 2nd September 1650 [her husband] Richard Fanshawe 1st Baronet (age 42) was created 1st Baronet Fanshawe of Donmore. Anne Harrison Lady Fanshawe (age 25) by marriage Lady Fanshawe of Donmore.
In 1653 [her daughter] Margaret Fanshawe was born to [her husband] Richard Fanshawe 1st Baronet (age 44) and Anne Harrison Lady Fanshawe (age 27).
In 1654 [her daughter] Ann Fanshawe was born to [her husband] Richard Fanshawe 1st Baronet (age 45) and Anne Harrison Lady Fanshawe (age 28).
Before 5th August 1661 Cornelius Johnson (age 67). Portrait of Anne Harrison Lady Fanshawe (age 36). Valence House Museum.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 30th June 1662. So settled to business, and at noon with my wife to the Wardrobe, and there dined, and staid talking all the afternoon with my Lord, and about four o'clock took coach with my wife and Lady, and went toward my house, calling at my Baroness Carteret's (age 60), who was within by chance (she keeping altogether at Deptford, Kent [Map] for a month or two), and so we sat with her a little. Among other things told my Lady how my Lady Fanshaw (age 37) is fallen out with her only for speaking in behalf of the French, which my Lady wonders at, they having been formerly like sisters, but we see there is no true lasting friendship in the world.
In 1665 [her son] Richard Fanshawe 2nd Baronet was born to [her husband] Richard Fanshawe 1st Baronet (age 56) and Anne Harrison Lady Fanshawe (age 39).
On 16th June 1666 [her husband] Richard Fanshawe 1st Baronet (age 58) died. His son [her son] Richard (age 1) succeeded 2nd Baronet Fanshawe of Donmore.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd November 1666. At noon home to dinner, where my wife and I fell out, I being displeased with her cutting away a lace handkercher sewed about the neck down to her breasts almost, out of a belief, but without reason, that it is the fashion. Here we did give one another the lie too much, but were presently friends, and then I to my office, where very late and did much business, and then home, and there find Mr. Batelier, and did sup and play at cards awhile. But he tells me the newes how the King of France (age 28) hath, in defiance to the King of England (age 36), caused all his footmen to be put into vests, and that the noblemen of France will do the like; which, if true, is the greatest indignity ever done by one Prince to another, and would incite a stone to be revenged; and I hope our King will, if it be so, as he tells me it is1 being told by one that come over from Paris with my Lady Fanshaw (age 41), who is come over with the dead body of her [her former husband] husband, and that saw it before he come away. This makes me mighty merry, it being an ingenious kind of affront; but yet it makes me angry, to see that the King of England is become so little as to have the affront offered him. So I left my people at cards, and so to my chamber to read, and then to bed.
Note 1. Planche throws some doubt on this story in his "Cyclopaedia of Costume" (vol. ii., p. 240), and asks the question, "Was Mr. Batelier hoaxing the inquisitive secretary, or was it the idle gossip of the day, as untrustworthy as such gossip is in general?" But the same statement was made by the author of the "Character of a Trimmer", who wrote from actual knowledge of the Court: "About this time a general humour, in opposition to France, had made us throw off their fashion, and put on vests, that we might look more like a distinct people, and not be under the servility of imitation, which ever pays a greater deference to the original than is consistent with the equality all independent nations should pretend to. France did not like this small beginning of ill humours, at least of emulation; and wisely considering, that it is a natural introduction, first to make the world their apes, that they may be afterwards their slaves. It was thought, that one of the instructions Madame(Henrietta, Duchess of Orléans)The story alluded to by Pepys, which belongs not to the reign of Richard III, but to that of Edward brought along with her, was to laugh us out of these vests; which she performed so effectually, that in a moment, like so many footmen who had quitted their master's livery, we all took it again, and returned to our old service; so that the very time of doing it gave a very critical advantage to France, since it looked like an evidence of our returning to her interest, as well as to their fashion. "The Character of a Trimmer" ("Miscellanies by the Marquis of Halifax", 1704, p. 164). Evelyn reports that when the King expressed his intention never to alter this fashion, "divers courtiers and gentlemen gave his Majesty gold by way of wager that he would not persist in this resolution" ("Diary", October 18th, 1666).
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On 28th September 1669 [her father] John Harrison (age 79) died in Balls Park, Hertford.
On 20th January 1680 Anne Harrison Lady Fanshawe (age 54) died.