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MAID and merry .monarch. FORTUNE IN CHANCERY. LONDON, July 2. The claim ito Alary Lepiue’s; fortune will probably conic on tor hearing m the Chancery Division of the High Clour t next week. One of the chief claimants is Jcs.de M a.-cm, who lives in a West End flat with her two sisters. who .says that she is descended from the Jane Lane who save! the life of Cilni.rle.s II after the battle of Worcester. ft-is recorded that Charles., disguised as Jane Lane’s servant., rode before her to Bristol through several bands of soldiers who were searching for him. The Attorney-General. will oppose the clanm, pleading the Statute of Limitations and the Intestacy Act.
•Minify Repine was a native of Portsmouth, and in 1.792 her estate- was valued at, £53,000. It has. been in Chancery s'liee, and is now estimated to he worth m/.nv hundreds of thousands sterling. The claimants include Viscount Bangor, an Trash peer, several Londoners, and a, Californian, who claim that they are descendants.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 July 1927, Page 5
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170SAVED A KING. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 July 1927, Page 5
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