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of needtework in silks and silver wire. At the four corners are 
portraits of King Charles I. and II., and James II, and in 
the fourth corner is presumably that of her father or brother. With 
the exception of King Charles II., the three other portraits re- 
main unfinished. This valuable relic is now in the possession of 
Mrs. Meyer, and with her permission I am able to give a photo-print 
of if here. The legend, with the seal of the Lane arms attached, 
reads thus: “ The work of Mrs. Jane Lane, who rode behind King 
Charles y® Second from Worcester to Bristol, from thence to Trent 
in Somersetshire, within two miles of Sherborne in Dorsetshire. The 
King appearing as her livery servant passing thro’ the Rebel troops 
and concealed by her dexterity he assum’d the name of William 
Jackson, passing for the son of one of the tenants of Colonel Lane, 
brother to Mrs. Jane Lane, who began this piece of work, but died 
before it was finished. 
‘¢ For this service the Lane Family bear in their 
Seal arms the Arms of England, crest a horse upholding 
; the crown of England in his fore feet. Motto, 
Garde le Roy.” 
The Fisher family bible, in which is entered the marriage of Jane 
Information, Lane, was recently sold at the dispersal of the Pack- 
a al ington Library (Earl of Aylesford’s), and bought by 
Sir Charles Dilke, whose family is connected with the Lanes, 
There remains but to gather up a few, but intensely interesting, 
notices of persons and things in connection with my story. 
Of Mary Lane two descendants of her husband’s family (Nicholas) 
Information, remain, or were resident a short time ago, in Wiltshire, 
os ay a one the daughter of a Rector of Little Cheverell—Miss 
Fishlake, and the other the widow of Mr. Barton, late of Corsley, 
near Warminster. She was only daughter of Captain John Nicholas, 
R.N., who was uncle of the present Mr. Richmond Nicholas, of 
Wimbledon. Harriet, a daughter of this gentleman’s great uncle, 
Robert Nicholas, married Admiral Henry Collier, their daughter 
married Charles Tennant, and Dorothy Tennant, the gifted artist 
and model for Sir John Millais’ famous picture, “The Love Letter,” 
has married Stanley, the great African explorer ! 
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