Francis Fane Of Fulbeck (other)
Francis Fane of Fulbeck has been used to identify these men: *Sir Francis Fane (Royalist) (c. 1611–1681?), was the third, but second surviving, son of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland *Sir Francis Fane (dramatist) Sir Francis Fane, KB, (died 1691) of Fulbeck, in Lincolnshire, was a writer of stage plays and poems and a courtier in the Restoration court of Charles II of England. Biography Fane was the eldest son of Sir Francis Fane (c. 1611–1680)., cit ...

Francis Fane (Royalist)
Sir Francis Fane of Fulbeck () supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. Biography 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 ...
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