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By C. Penruddocke. 281 
“God be praised,” writes this loyal lady, “the King is well.” 
The “Dancing She thought of him as the King. She had (as a 
iy athe play writer of the present day says), when his life 
Jones. was in danger, “ pulled him from under the horse’s 
feet.” How gratefully she acknowledges her pension' of one 
thousand pounds. ‘“ The Duke of York is in physic” she tells the 
Queen—perhaps he was suffering from measles. His sister, Henrietta, 
bred them while in London. The Duchess is “in physic” too. 
Her confinement of an heir presumptive to the crown had lately 
taken place. 
Even the Duchess, meé Anne Hyde, is “ gratious ” to Jane Lane, 
though her own mother—Lady Clarendon—was forced to stand in 
her presence. 
“T hope he [the King] will do what your Majesty expects of 
» J think this must mean “marry.” The King evidently did 
not hurry himself. Mistress Lane discreetly avoids an opinion as 
to whether the Queen-Mother should come to England without an 
invitation. She did not in fact re-visit England till 1662, when 
Mistress Lane had become Lady Fisher. 
We can but admire the honest ring in the sentence which closes 
him. 
this nice letter :—“ Noe soule alive is more your Majesty’s obedient 
and most humble Servant.” 
I trust I may be forgiven for writing at length on what I have 
been able to collect, in which Jane Lane figures, or which is in some 
way connected with her history. 
With regard to the arms of Lane, which appeared in my last 
paper, they represent the original coat borne by several generations 
P of de Lonas, Lonas, and Lones, and also for a few 
Information, 
H. Murray Lane, years after the name became Lane, but in the 
Chester Herald. ¢ froenth century the per fesse coat was introduced, 
and with the grant of the three lions of England by King Charles 
II. is blazoned thus :—Party per fesse, or : and az: over all a chevron 
gu: between three martlets counterchanged, and on a canton the arms 
of England. The crest is a strawberry roan horse saliant ; couped at 
1 The warrant for her pension was made out February 5th, 1660-1, 
