286 Mistress Jane Lane. 
distinctly records her participation in the King’s 
W. A. M., vol. 
XXVi., p. 2. i ae 
It seems to me that the two sisters might very 
well have met at Bristol, and Jane taken the disguised King on to 
Mrs. Norton’s. Mrs. Norton could lay claim to be connected with our 
; county, for her aunt, Elizabeth Owen, married 
Pedigree, Owen : 
aE Condever Henry Smyth, of Corsham, Wilts, a gentleman 
W. A.M, voli, who was present at the a party when Henry 
p. 309. Long was murdered by Sir Henry Danvers. 
I have little to relate of Lady Fisher’s married life. She lived 
twenty years at Packington with her husband, whom she survived 
six years. Both lie buried in the “ Catacombs” of the new Church 
at Great Packington, built in 1789, to which the 
Builder’s Account : ; 
Book, in pos- | bodies were removed from the vaults in the old 
ene a of Church. I have to thank Mr. Waller, the courteous 
srord. 
: Rector, for much information, and permission to 
examine the parish registers, whose entries commence with the year 
1538, and are in excellent condition. The entry of Jane Lane’s 
burial appears, on inspection, to be in the hand- 
W.A.M., vol. writing of the officiating minister, and made at the 
XXVvl., p. 32. ; ‘ F 
time. The surrounding entries of lesser degree 
seem to have been “written up.” Through the kindness of Lord 
and Lady Aylesford, while on a visit to Packington Hall, I was able 
to realize the picturesque beauty of ‘“ Mistress Lane’s” married 
home in the Forest of Arden, where wander the black deer, 
descendants of those killed by the “ foresters” in 
* As You Like It,” : s.oehe 
‘Act IV.,Scene 2, Shakespeare’s time :— 
“What shall he have that killed the deer?” 
The old house of the Fishers is Elizabethan, and stands not very 
far from the great ‘“ pool” mentioned by Dugdale. It is gabled, 
and has casement windows. A broad staircase of black oak leads to 
the upper rooms. In the large hall is an oak table of the period 
with cupboards, and there is a stand of arms against the wall, some 
of which may have been used by Sir Clement Fisher in defence of 
the King. 
