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 that letter when she was stopping with Mr. Hope at Deepdene, Surrey. She wrote it during the night, read the lines to the guests at breakfast next morning, and committed them to Mr. Hope's album, now preserved at Hedgebury, near Cranbrook, Kent. The opening line originally ran,

'Twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell;

but the accepted reading, and the alteration is generally assigned to James Smith of the ‘Rejected Addresses,’ now is,

'Twas whispered in heaven, 'twas muttered in hell.

Two lines of a poem by Praed, which appeared in the ‘Morning Post,’ March 1833, suggested her ‘Speech of the Member for Odium,’ a poetic squib on Cobbett, who sat for Oldham, which was afterwards printed for private circulation. A few copies of her ‘Memorials,’ which contained most of her poems and nine photographs from her etchings, were printed by Harness in 1865 for circulation among her friends, and 250 copies of ‘The Literary Remains of Catherine Maria Fanshawe. With notes by the late Rev. William Harness,’ were issued by Pickering in 1876. A letter and a poem by her are in Miss Berry's ‘Journal,’ ii. 297–302, and in iii. 526–8 is a poem with the heading ‘The Country Cat docketed by Miss Fanshawe;’ in ‘Murray's Magazine,’ i. 6 (1887), is printed an extract from one of her letters, describing a dinner party at Sir Humphry Davy's house, at which Byron and Madame de Staël met. A tombstone in Chipstead churchyard to the memory of a farmer bears some lines written by Miss Fanshawe. Three of her poems are included in Locker's ‘Lyra Elegantiarum.’

Two of her sketch-books belonged to the wife of Dean Gregory of St. Paul's Cathedral, daughter of Miss Fanshawe's first cousin, Lady Stopford; one of them contains views of Chipstead rectory, and of the scenery in the Christchurch corner of Hampshire; the second preserves scenes sketched in a trip from Genoa over the Mount Cenis. Mrs. Gregory also owned some large water-colour drawings by Miss Fanshawe, illustrating Shakespeare's ‘Seven Ages of Man.’ Several of her sketch-books are the property of Mrs. Gregory's sisters, the Misses Stopford of Richmond. Many of them are foreign sketches, depicting tours in Italy, but some delineate English scenery. Miss Fanshawe paid numerous visits to the south of Europe for the benefit of her health.

 FANSHAWE, HENRY (1569–1616), remembrancer of the exchequer, baptised 15 Aug. 1569, was elder son of  [q. v.], by his first wife, Mary, daughter of Antony Bourchier. In November 1586 he became a student of the Inner Temple (Students of the Inner Temple, 1571–1625, p. 54). In 1601, on his father's death, he inherited Ware Park, Hertfordshire, a house in Warwick Lane, London, and a part of St. John's Wood, on condition that he should provide lodging with himself for his stepmother Joan and for his sisters and stepsisters until their marriage (see Fanshawe Wills, pt. i. pp. 40–3). He also succeeded to his father's office as remembrancer of the exchequer. According to the testimony of his daughter-in-law, Anne, wife of Sir [q. v.], Queen Elizabeth described Henry Fanshawe as ‘the best officer of accounts she had, and a person of great integrity.’ He was elected M.P. for Westbury, Wiltshire, 1 Nov. 1588, and again in February 1592–3. He sat for Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, in the parliament summoned in the autumn of 1597. On 7 May 1603 he was knighted. Prince Henry was friendly with him, and had the prince lived he would doubtless have become a secretary of state. He was an enthusiastic student of Italian, and devoted much time to the rearing of horses, which he rode to advantage. Lady Fanshawe reports the course of a negotiation between him and the Earl of Exeter as to the sale of a valuable horse ‘for a hundred pieces.’ ‘His retinue was great, and that made him stretch his estate, which was near if not full 4,000l. a year, yet when he died he left no debts upon his estate.’ Camden is said by Lady Fanshawe to describe Fanshawe's garden at Ware Park as unsurpassed in England for its flowers, physic-herbs, and fruits. He died suddenly, at the age of forty-eight, at Ware, early in March 1615–16, and was buried in the church there 12 March. ‘He was,’ writes his daughter-in-law, ‘as handsome and as fine a gentleman as England then had, a most excellent husband, father, friend, and servant to his prince.’

Fanshawe married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Smith or Smythe of Ostenhanger, Kent, by whom he had six sons:, first