$2 Mistress Jane Lane. 
have given orders for my pickture for you; and if in this, or in anything else I 
can shew the sence I have of that w I owe you, pray let me know it, and it shall 
be done by 
“Your most assured 
* And constant frind, 
“CHaries R.” 
“For Mrs. Lane.” 
Mr. Hughes, the editor of the Boscobel tracts, 1830, says that 
this letter in Charles’s handwriting, accompanied by the picture to 
Nov. eH which it alludes, was then in the possession of John 
Bromley. Newton Lane, Esq., the lineal descendant of Colonel 
Lane. The King gave his protectress a gold watch, which was, by 
express request, to descend by succession to the eldest daughter of 
the house of Lane for the time being. It came into the possession 
Rev. T. of Mrs. Lucy, of Charlecote, and remained in the 
Whitehead. family until after 1830, when it was stolen by thieves, 
and never heard of again. 
At a meeting of the Chester Historic Society, in 1850, the Rev. 
Canon Slade exhibited a curious snuff-box, which is said to have 
been presented to Mrs. Jane Lane by King Charles II. 
As Mr. Hughes says in his Boscobel Tracts, an English matron 
of Lady Fisher’s character was not likely to be mentioned in the 
subsequent annals of Charles’s Court, where, however, her brother 
and herself were on all occasions received with distinction by the 
King. After twenty years of married life Lady Fisher became a 
widow through the death of her husband, Sir Clement 
Fisher, who died 18th April, 1683, and was buried on 
” the 15th, et. 70. There was at this time the sum of £6500 due to 
Correspondence _her for her pension, which had not been paid for six 
ritepes ‘Clar- years and a-half, to Lady Day, 1683, but it was, on 
ene 3 application, promptly ordered to be paid. 
H.MurrayLane § Mrs. Jane Lane (Lady Fisher) died the 9th 
Chester Herald’ September, 1689, and there is an entry in the 
ipa Pala parish Register of Great Packington, but in an 
ton. entirely different handwriting: “Jane y® Lady of 
y’ late Sir Clement Fisher buried September y® 12th, 1689.” 
During the last years of her life she worked a very curious piece 
Coll. Arms, 
