Rachel Bourchier, Countess of Bath

[5] Around the time her masques were performed, Rachel Fane made a translation of a section of the French romance, Amadis de Gaul, which survives with some of her other notebooks at the Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone.

[6] On 13 December 1638, at the age of 25, in the church of St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London, she married the 50 year-old Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath (1587-1654) of Tawstock Court in Devon.

Following Bourchier's death in 1654, Rachel commissioned a striking monument in his memory, which survives in the south aisle chapel of St Peter's Church, Tawstock.

Opinions vary as to its artistic merit, with Hoskins (1954)[9] calling it "massive and ugly", while J. H. Marland deemed it "almost unequalled in singularity and absurdity".

[13] The life-size white marble statue of Rachel Fane, sculpted by Balthasar Burman (son of Thomas Burman),[14] which survives in St Peter's Church, Tawstock, is a copy of the statue of Mary Cavendish (1556–1632) the wife of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury,[11] sculpted in 1671 by Thomas Burman at the cost of her nephew William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676), which stands in a niche on the Shrewsbury Tower of the Second Court (which she partly financed) of St John's College, Cambridge.