[1] Shortly after completing his studies at King's College, Cambridge, Fanshawe became involved in the 1667 peace talks ending the Second Anglo-Dutch War, which were held at Breda.

[2] In 1689, as a Tory, he represented the Mitchell in the Convention Parliament,[1] which was called after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

[3] He refused to take an oath of loyalty to newly crowned King William III and Queen Mary II and as a result was removed from Parliament.

[1] In 1692, Parliament declared him a Jacobite and he was briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London for high treason.

[1] Fanshawe died in his Suffolk home on 28 March 1710 and was buried in Ware.