page_title: Francis Fane (Royalist)
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Francis Fane (Royalist) / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Stamped Arms, gold on leather, of Sir Francis Fane (c.1611-1681?), K.B.: Quarterly of twelve, 1st. &amp; 12th. Three dexter gauntlets affronty (Fane); 2nd. a saltire a rose for difference (Nevill of Raby); 3rd. Fretty on a canton per pale a ship (Nevill of Bulmer); 4th. A fess or between six cross crosslets (Beauchamp); 5th. A lion rampant (FitzAlan); 6th. Checky (Warenne [Warren); 7th. Quarterly in the second and third quarters a fret a bend overall (Le Despencer); 8th. Three chevrons (Clare); 9th. A lion rampant double queued (Burghersh); 10th. Three lions rampant (Mildmay); 11th. Two crosses patty in pale between as many flaunches checky (Sherington). A crescent for difference. Crest: Out of a ducal coronet a bull's head charged on the neck with a rose. Other information Stamped arms, gold on leather, of Sir Francis Fane (1611-1681), K.B. Stamp found on the cover of all of the following books, those once belonging to Francis Fane: Fitzherbert, Thomas. Second part of a treatise concerning policy, and religion, Douai, 1610. Norgate, Edward. Exact and compendious discourse concerning the arte of miniature or limning. Selden, John. Titles of honor, London, 1631. Silhon, sieur de (Jean). Minister of state, London, 1658. Wotton, Henry, Sir. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, London, 1651.
context_page_description: Sir Francis Fane of Fulbeck KB FRS supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.
context_section_description: Fane was the third, but second surviving, son of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland.
  Fane was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I. During the English Civil War he was appointed by the Duke of Newcastle to be governor of Doncaster for the King, and afterwards of Lincoln Castle.
  Lincoln was besieged by Edward, Earl of Manchester on 3 May 1644. An attempt to break the siege was made by George, Lord Goring on 5 May, but he found the Parliamentary forces too strong and retreated. The next night the Lincoln Castle (a key defensive structure) was stormed with the use of scaling ladders. Sir Francis Fane, Sir Charles Dallison, and 100 other officers and gentlemen, and 800 soldiers were taken prisoner.
  He obtained some reputation as a dramatic writer, having left, besides some poems, three dramatic pieces. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1663 (and expelled in 1682).
  Fane was seated at Fulbeck, in Lincolnshire, and at Aston in Yorkshire, where he resided the latter part of his life.
caption: Arms of Sir Francis Fane (c.1611-1681?), K.B., on a book.
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