282 Mistress Jane Lane. 
the flanks, bridled sa: bitted and garnished, or: supporting between 
the feet a regal crown.’ Some interest attaches itself to the colour 
of the horse in the crest, which is mentioned as a strawberry roan 
in the words of the grant, and so blazoned. The family of Lane 
always regard this as representing the exact colour of the horse on 
which the King and Mistress Jane Lane rode. Col. Cecil Lane, of 
Whiston Hall, possesses a seal on which is the first cut of the crest 
after it was granted. He has very kindly sent me an impression. 
It is said that John Lane, of King’s Bromley, who died in 1824, 
claimed—and established his claim—to be exempt from the tax on 
armorial bearings because his family bore the royal arms. 
At page 15 of this volume the pedigree apparently makes the 
descent of Lady Fisher and her sisters from Col. John Lane. By 
erasing the descending line they will appear, as intended, from 
Thomas Lane and Anne Bagot. Of Col. Lane, the brother of Jane 
Lane, it is said that he refused a peerage—adding, in his manly way, 
Dario veaansle “ he had not means enough to support it,” but his 
papers. name was one of those included in a proposed new 
Wilmot’s Hist order called the “ Knights of the Royal Oak.” 
of Walsall. The Lane family very modestly declined the 
Commien starry ‘honour, which was offered them, of interment in 
Westminster Abbey. It is doubtful, therefore, if Parliament voted 
any sum of money for a monument to Col. Lane’s memory. His 
monument is in the Lane Chapel of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton, 
which a reverend and most courteous descendant describes to me as 
very ugly. 
The family dignity, which prevented the acceptance of a peerage 
and a national monument, seems to have existed in Jane Lane—if 
we may judge from the following entries. The first occurs in an 
f an account kept by a Mr. Guy for King Charles II. 
*; Reepes Beets tc To Dame Jane Fisher, bounty, £250-0-0”; 
Charles II. and , Y> 3 
James IT. but there is also another another entry, under 
at “ Moneys received ” :—‘ From the Lady Jane 
Fisher in repayment of so much lent her by King Charles the seeond 
£250 - 0 - 0.” 
The Penderels are known to have been treated with the greatest 
