FORTUNE IN CHANCERY.
A ROMANTIC CLAIM. STORY OF THE MERRY MONARCH. LONDON. June 18. The claim to Mary Lepine's fortune will probably come on for hearing in the Chancery Division of the High Court shortly. One of the chief claimants is Jessie Mason, who lives in a West End flat with her two sisters, and who says that she is descended from the Jane Lane who saved the life of Charles 11. after the Battle of Worcester. It 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 claim, pleading the Statute of Limitations and the Intestacy Act. Mary Lepine was a native of Portsmouth". and in 1792 her estate was valued at £53.000. It has been in Chancery since and is now estimated to be worth many hundreds of thousands of pounds. The claimants include Viscount Bangor, an Irish peer, several Londoners and a California!!. who declare that they are her descendants.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19676, 30 June 1927, Page 10
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