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and in the same year application was made by her for the place of 
Upper Assay Master in the Mint, or Clerk of the Deliveries in the 
Tower.’ 
It is doubtful, pressed as the loyal Lanes were for money, if the 
thousand pounds voted by the Parliament to purchase a jewel for 
Jane Lane was ever spent on one. The lady, however, through the 
generosity of the King, was now in a better position to marry, and 
an entry is found in her husband’s family bible (a revered book, 
which remained in the Fisher family from about 1580 till their 
Copy of Extract extinction), which records: “ Sir Thomas Ffisher, 
from-biblenow gon of Sir Robert Ffisher, baronet, was married by 
ee Dake, Gilbert Shelden, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 
Bart December 8th (1662), to Jane Lane, daughter to 
Thomas Lane, Esq., of Bentley, in the County of Stafford.” There 
was no issue by this marriage. 
The following letter shows the deference and regard which the 
King had for this lady. A certain Mr. Boswell, probably son of 
Sir Henry Boswell, who was Resident in Holland, 1648, “ chaffs ” 
Mrs. Lane upon the good counsel which she gives His Majesty in 
her letters to him, and which the King publicly proclaims in his 
bedchamber. Upon her acquainting the King with this he returns 
the following :— 
“ Mistriss Lane. 
“pa “T hope you do not beleeve that hearing from a person that I am 
p.76. so much beholding to can be in the least degree troublesome to me, 
that am so sensible of the obligations I have to you; but on the contrary ’tis a 
very greate satisfaction to me to heare from you; and for that which Mr. Boswell 
is pleased to tell you concerning your giving me good councell in a letter, and 
my making it publick in my bedchamber, is not the first lie he has made, nor will 
- not be the last, for I am sartayne there was never anything spoken in the bed- 
chamber in my hearing to any such purpose, nor, I am confident, when I was not 
_ there, for I beleeve Mr. Boswell’s end is to shew his frequent being in my bed- 
chamber, which is as true as the other. Your cousin will let you know that I 
_1“QUpper Assay Master,” probably lineal descendant of ‘“‘ Miles Argentarius ” 
of the Plantagenets, i.e., he presided at the trial of the Pyx for establishing 
purity of currency. “Clerk of Deliveries,” i.e, out of the Kings wardrobe in 
the Tower. There was also a Clerk of Deliveries of Ordnance in the Tower. 
