88 Mistress Jane Lane. 
a eisiiabion obs The portrait is still extant, but alas! the bowl 
a has disappeared. Perhaps the person who is said 
from Mrs. Price, to have bought it of Mrs. Penderel may be in- 
Malvern. clined, on reading this, to produce it, 
A snuff-box made from the wood of the Royal Oak, and one in 
silver with an engraving of Boscobel, were shewn at the Stuart 
Exhibition in London, 1889. 
Some portion of the oak tree was obtained by the Lane family, 
for in the Ashmolean, at Oxford, is preserved a small salver of wood, 
‘ attached to which is a plate of silver, with the following inscription : 
*¢ This salver is part of that oak in which His Majesty King Charles the Second 
concealed himself from the Rebells, and was given to this University by Mrs. 
Leetitia Lane.” 
Miss Lettice, or Leetitia, was a niece of Lady Fisher’s, and died 
in 1709. Through the great kindness of the Vice-Chancellor I am 
enabled to give the photo-print of the salver, which accompanies 
this paper. 
“The King enjoys his own again,” or “ Trusty Dick.” 
eo drt “What Booker can prognosticate 
Music, Concerning Kings or Kingdoms’ fate P 
Marie I think myself to be as wise 
As he that gazeth on the skies. 
My skill goes beyond 
The depths of a Pond,® 
Or Rivers* in the greatest rain, 
Whereby I can tell 
All things will be well, 
When the King enjoys his own again.” 
[Since writing the above I have had access to a very curious contemporary 
manuscript, written by a native of Worcester at the request of the Mayor and 
Corporation of that town. Itis in the possession of Sir Charles Isham. The 
writer, a Mr. Thomas Vaulx, “arms painter and student in heraldry,” gives 
an interesting account of the battle of Worcester, and how Charles II. had his 
horse shot under him, and was re-mounted on another by Master William 
Bagnall, the brewer. Vaulx writes “his enemies did breathe out nothing but 
his death, and destruction.” In speaking of Jane Lane he says :—‘‘She who 
had formerly disguised His Majesty in a serving man’s habit had to disguise 
herself as a country wench, and so trot on foot to save her life.” He adds :— 
“TI believe no past, or future ages can, or will ever parallel so great a pattern 
of female loyalty and generosity.”—C.P.] 
SUE ee 
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