284 Mistress Jane Lane. 
presence of mind all through that perilous journey, can only be 
equalled b ti i a issi 
King Charles II. qualle y a romantic eile entitled A Missing 
and Cogans of Chapter in Boscobel Tracts,” edited by a Fellow of 
pen ae the Society of Antiquaries, which relates how Charles 
1891. "was saved from his pursuers by a certain Mrs. Cogan, 
who “threw her dress over him”! 
Gent's. Magazine, In the Gentleman’s Magazine I find a reference 
June, 1794, to the celebrated “jack” which the King was 
Fig. 4, p. 507. : 
unable to wind up at Long Marston, as well as a 
drawing of that wonderful machine itself. It is 
now in the possession of a descendant of Mr. Tomes 
abrir glee at Long Marston, who married Captain Carrow, 
e and was shown by him at the Stuart Exhibition in 
Information, 1889. The “jack” stands in a glass case in the 
Captain Carrow, _, , : é 
Long Marston. dining-room (once the kitchen) of Long Marston, 
The encounter between Mr. Tomes’ cook and His Majesty has 
been related before. bs 
The sheltering of the King by Mr. John Tomes at Long Marston 
j is duly chronicled in the family pedigree. 
Tomes’ Pedigree. ; : ; : nko 
Information, Here is a nice little bit gleaned from a “ Histoire 
Robert Fisher qe Cromwell,” published at Paris, 1691. Ac- 
Tomes, Esq. ; ; 5 : 
cording to the writer it was Mistress Jane Lane 
herself who changed the pallid hue of the King’s face into that of 
a gipsy by the application of a dye, made and applied by her own 
fair hands. 
aBebise de Cromwell, “Ta fille de ce chevalier [Lane] fit bouiller des écorces de 
om atan Library. noix avec de l’huile de Térébinthe; et on luy frotta si bien 
le visage avec cette drogue, qu’il luy on demeura totjours depuis une couleur 
brune que beaucoup de personnes ont cru étre la couleur naturelle de son teint.” 
Another French writer says :— 
re bis, “ He [the King] retired to a certain gentlewoman’s house, 
° Val, e . : . . 
Compton Library, | who changed his clothes, conducted him to Bristol, and after- 
wards to London in the habit of a gentlewoman, where he stayed above three 
weeks, and then he passed into France!” 
"I have not been able to satisfy myself as to the degree of relation - 
ship between Jane Lane and Mrs, Norton, of Abbot’s Leigh. The 
