Henry Fanshawe (1569–1616)

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".

[4] John Chamberlain was a frequent visitor and described the building of a miniature fort in the garden, later replaced by a pool and fountain.

[6] Fanshawe maintained a musical establishment and was a patron of the composer John Ward, who dedicated a book of madrigals to him in 1613.

[7] In December 1613 one of his servants called Swinborne won and lost £1,100 playing dice at the Three Tuns in Newgate Market, and killed himself with poison.

"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".

Among his property mention is made of pictures in oil, prints, drawings, medals, engraved stones, armour, books, and musical instruments, most of which were to be removed from his London house in Warwick Lane to Ware Park, and there to remain for ever as heirlooms.