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Adlistress Jane Pane. 
By C. PENRUDDOCKE. 
(Continued from vol. xxvi., p. 38.) 
EARLY ten years had passed since the memorable ride from 
Bentley to Bristol, when a King was flying for his life 
under the guidance ofa woman.!_ The sceneis changed. The King 
is in London, “ enjoying his own again,” and his preserver inditing 
a letter to the Queen-Mother, Henrietta Maria, whose friendship 
she retains, and with whom she appears to be on terms of unusual 
intimacy. 
* © fFeath 
“For her Majestie. 
Originalinw. “I was infinitly glad to have the honour to reseave a letter from 
Sinton? your Mate for it was reported here that you ware not well, and 
indeed I was in much pane till I heard from my cosen Broughton. 
God be praysed the King is well, but the Duke is in phisick still 
and so is the Duches. She is very gratious to me, but I doe not 
goe oft up to wait on her. the King has now given order for the 
settling of a thousand pounds a yeare upon me. I am very much bound to his 
Mat for his gratious favour to me. I hope in time he will doe what is fit for 
your Ma‘® to expect from. it tys the opinion of many heare that your Mati 
should com into England without an invitation but I confes I canot tell how to 
advise your Ma in this point. I think your Ma** the best judg on it your 
selfe what is most proper for you to do. If I may be so happie as to know when 
your ma*® will com I will not faile to paye my duty in waiting of your Ma** for 
noe soule a live is more 
As Lady-in- 
Waiting. 
“Your Matie® most 
“ Obedient and most humble 
** Servant 
“J. Lane.” 
During the recess of the first Parliament called by King Charles IT. 
in 1660 the Queen-Mother arrived in England, after nineteen years’ 
absence, with her daughter, the Princess Henrietta (betrothed to 
1Tt is worthy of a thought that the first thing the exiled King talked about 
as he paced the quarter deck of the ship sent to bring him back to England was 
his perilous escape from Worcester, which made good old Pepys “ready to weep.” 
* Featherstone, chapelry in parish of Wolverhampton, Co, Stafford, near Brewood, 
