ROMANTIC CLAIM.
How Maid Saved Merry Monarch. ! FORTUNE IN CHANCERY. LOXDO.V. June 10. j ■ The claim to Mary Lepine's fortune will probably come on for hearing in i the Chancery Division of the High Court next week. One of the chief claimants is Jessie I Mason, who lives in a West End flat j with her two sisters, and who ears that she is descended from the Jane Lane, who saved the life of Charles 1L after the Battle of Worcester. It is recorded that Charles, disguised as Jane Lane's senant, rode before her Ito Bristol through several bands of soldiers who were searching for him. The Attorney-General will oppose the claim, pleading the Statute of Limitations and the Intc.-tary Art. I Mary Lepine was a native of Portsi mouth, and m 1792 her estate wa* valued [at i 03.000. It ha* boon in Chancery . since, and is now estimated to be worth many hundreds of thousands strrhng. Th? claimant* include Viscount Bangor. an Irish Peer, several Londoners, and t! Califonnan. who declare that they are her i descendants.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 7
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179ROMANTIC CLAIM. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 7
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