Jane Fisher

Third daughter of Thomas Lane and Anne Bagot. Helped Charles II escape to France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Lane,_Lady_Fisher

However Jane heard on 14 October that the Council of State had been told she had helped with the escape. Before Bentley Hall was searched, she left, walking to Yarmouth posing as a "country wench" and travelled to France. She arrived in Paris in December 1651 and was welcomed by the Court in exile. She developed a strong friendship with the King and with Queen Henrietta Maria. The King held her in great esteem. So much so that John Fisher reported a scurrillous rumour had circulated that she was the King's mistress. Even the King's sister, Mary, in a letter from Holland jokingly referred to Jane as the King's 'wife'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Lane,_Lady_Fisher

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King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1649 to 1685 may never have worn the Crown but for the loyal, self sacrificing and clever services of Lady Jane Lane, daughter of Col. John Lane, who had the future monarch pose as her servant in 1651 when Lt. General Oliver Cromwell put a high ransom on the head of the former Prince of Wales. One of the greatest manhunts ever conducted in England was foiled because Jane Lane, with the guidance of her father and others loyal to King Charles I, changed the young King's appearance to that of a poverty stricken farm lad and servant. As a result Charles II was gotten safely out of England.

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bowers/lane/charles2.htm

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Helped Charles II escaped England during the abolishment of the monarchy and was rewarded greatly when the monarchy was restored. See Wikipedia entry on Jane Lane, Lady Fisher

Notes

From THE LANES AND CHARLES II

In a book called "The Romance of Heraldry", pg. 186 we find:

"The most remarkable heraldic is that granted to the family of LANE for the assistance given to Charles by Mistress Jane Lane, for many years after a Royalist toast. Mistress Jane aided the Prince's escape from his foes by agreeing that he should pose as her servant, in which guise he rode before her on a strawberry roan horse to Bristol, where he hoped to take ship for France.

"Mistress Lane's courages layality earned for her family one of the most notable augmentations known to heraldry, none other than the three lions of England. They were added as a canton to the Lane arms-a sheild divided horizontally gold and blue, with a red chevron, and three stars counter-coloured. The accompanying crest is the faithful strawberry roan, holding a crown in token that he once carried its owner, and the motto is "Garde le Roy".

Origins Children of Thomas Lane and Anne Bagot

• Elizabeth Lane2
• Anne Lane2
• Withy Lane2
• Colonel John Lane+2 b. 8 Apr 1609, d. Sep 1667
• Walter Lane2 b. May 1611
• Jane Lane2 b. c 1617, d. 9 Sep 1689
• Mary Lane2 b. 1619, d. Dec 1686
• Richard Lane2 b. a 1625
• William Lane2 b. 7 Aug 1625, d. 1700

References

•  John Sutton, ‘Lane, Jane, Lady Fisher (d. 1689)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15992, accessed 18 July 2013]
• George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage Volume 1 1900. Archive.Org