18 Mistress Jane Lane. 
of the same year he was ordered to be discharged on payment of 
£60 in a month, In February of the year following he received a 
receipt for the same, and was discharged. 
It would seem as if he was absent from Bentley at the time of 
His Majesty’s appearance there, or that he refrained from compro- 
mising himself by appearing to take any active part in assisting the 
King. It is very probable that Col. and Mrs. Lane lived at Bentley, 
and old Thomas Lane lived at Hyde, which was the family seat of 
the Lanes, Perhaps, like his wife, then on a visit to her son, he 
was not let into the secret. Events took place so rapidly that 
almost as soon as the eseape was planned it was carried out. As we 
have seen, Squire Lane being in fairly good odour with the Govern- 
ment, there appears to have been no difficulty in his daughter ob- 
taining a pass to go on a visit to her cousin, Mrs. Norton, who lived 
near Bristol; and as this pass included the necessary attendance of 
servants, Jane Lane, with the ready wit of a woman, saw how the 
King, if he so pleased, might personate one of these, 
And now to return to Charles, whom we left moping at Moseley, 
while Mr. Huddleston’s pupils (among whom was young Sir John 
Preston) were made to keep strict watch for soldiers, under the 
pretence that their tutor was in danger. In the night of Tuesday, 
September 9th, between 12 and 1 o’clock, the fugitive steals out, 
and by previous arrangement meets and is introduced to Col. Lane 
in a corner of Mr. Whitgrave’s orchard. The colonel has come to 
conduct him to Bentley. The night is dark and cold. The King 
shivers. Father Huddleston lends him his warm cloak, and kind 
old Mrs. Whitgrave insists upon filling his pockets with sweetmeats 
of a very substantial character, if we may judge of the way in which 
they were made from the old receipt books :— 
Sweetmeats. Excellent. 
Professor “Take halfe a pound of blanched almonds beaten very fine with a 
aa little rose water, two ounces of the leaves of damask roses beaten 
Pediat fine, then take half a pound of sugar, and a little more, wet it with 
1696, * water, and boil it to a candy height, then put in your almonds and 
roses and a grain of musk, and let them boil a little while together, and then put 
it into glasses. It makes a fine sort of marmalade.” * 
® Sweetmeats made from this receipt by Messrs. Gunter & Co., London, were given to the audience 
ai the Devizes Meeting, accompanied by glasses of ‘“‘ sack.” 
