80 j Mistress Jane Thane. 
does not clearly say so. Up jumps Sir Thomas Bludworth and 
proposes that it be left to the King to reward her. Then a Mr. 
Boynton drily remarked “that they were giving away as freely as 
if they had all the Rump thought they had, which was so inconsistent 
with monarchy that he thought the House wanted an Act of In- 
demnity to absolve them.” Sir Harry Worsley moved that every 
Member should give her forty shillings out of their own purses, and 
grumpy Mr. Henry Hungerford, having moved in November that 
£10,000 be presented to the Princess Henrietta, the King’s sister, 
declared that he thought by the many gifts they were bestowing the 
House was making its will, and moved rather to give the money 
now moved for Mistress Lane to the poor at the door. Mr. Hunger- 
ford did not carry his motion any more than when, in November, 
he moved the House to appoint a fast for the death of the young 
Duke of Gloucester, and got no secunder. The friends of Mrs. 
Lane were pretty numerous, and Sir William Lewis, with an eye to 
foreign affairs, said that it would sound very unhandsome abroad, as 
this affair had been debated so long, if it should be now thrown out- 
Sir John Masham was for putting the question first whether the 
House had power to give money to any but the King. However, 
Sir Henry North moving for £1000, that question was put and 
carried without division. So it was resolved that as a mark of 
respect to Mrs. Lane, and in testimony of the high resentment (sic) 
and value of her service, in being so signally instrumental to the 
preservation and security of the person of His Royal Majesty, there 
be conferred upon her the sum of £1000 to buy her a jewel, and 
that the same be charged on the arrears of the Grand Excise, &c. 
gate pies ere Be In a gossipy news letter from Mr, Edward 
App, B. 5, p.201.. | Gower to Sir Richard Leaveson, dated December 
20th, 1660. Commenting the day after upon the vote, he says :— 
*€ Major-General Massey hath £3000 given him by the Parliament, 
and Captain Titus £2000. . Mistress Jane Lane, tho’ deserving 
much more than both, but £1000. ’Tis observed the Presbyterians 
are best rewarded ! ” 
However, on February 5th, 1661, a warrant for a pension for 
£1000 a year by letters patent during life was granted to Mrs. Lane, 
