LANE, or DE LA LONE

From this Norman the Lanes of Staffordshire claim descent, a family illustrious in history for the part they took in the preservation of King Charles II. After the battle of Worcester, Col. John Lane, the head of the house, received the fugitive Prince at his mansion of Bentley, whence his Majesty was conveyed in disguise by the Colonel's eldest sister, Jane Lane, to her cousin Mrs. Norton's residence near Bristol. This loyal lady married in the sequel Sir Clement Fisher of Packington, in Warwickshire, and received, after the Restoration, an annual pension of £1000 for life. From her brother, the cavalier Col. Lane (to whom it was granted, in augmentation of his paternal coats, an especial badge of honour, viz. the arms of England in a canton, with, for crest, a strawberry roan horse, bearing between his fore legs the Royal Crown), lineally descends the present JOHN NEWTON LANE, Esq., of King's Bromley Manor, co. Stafford.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey Roll).