Lady Elizabeth Lane – 5280 Explorer

Welcome to the latest twist in a story more likely to sprout new heads than a hydra! My research has often led me through accounts of Richard Lane which are sprinkled with comments that he came from a family of little wealth, but a good name. Little wealth I understand, but what was meant by a good name? Until now, I’ve spent most of my genealogy efforts directed toward his descendants, and little into his parentage. I should have known I would find something surprising when I did! Although the Lane family is itself an old and distinguished family in its own right, the truly impressive link didn’t come about through his father, but through Richard Lane’s mother, Elizabeth (Vincent) Lane…

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Image Gallery

Temple Church, London

Tombs of Templar Knights in the floor of Temple Church

Middle Temple grounds

Parish church of St Hellier, Jersey

Elizabeth Castle, Jersey

Title page of Richard Lane’s book

Map of southern England and Jersey

Middle Temple Library’s restored copy of “Lane’s Reports”

Stone knight effigies in the floor of the rotunda, Temple Church, London

Richard Lane’s Armorial glass in the windows of Middle Temple Hall. This is different than his Readership armorial panel on the walls below – it was the updated with the Lion by Charles II. The word “miles” means he was a Knight.