[Illustration] The ancient seat of this family was at Bentley in
this county, of which Richard Lane was possessed in the sixth of
Henry VI. The Lanes can be traced to Adam de Lone de Hampton,
grandfather of Richard de le Lone de Hampton, in the ninth of Edward
II. (1315). The three last Lanes of Bentley each lessened the
estate, mainly from their devotion to the ill-fated house of Stuart;
and the fourth, John Lane, sold Bentley in 1748. This family, even
more than the Giffords and Whitgreaves, can lay claim to be
remembered for its loyalty to Charles II. after his flight from
Worcester. The celebrated Jane Lane was the daughter of the then
head of the house, and rode behind the King from Bentley to Bristol.
King's Bromley was inherited from the Newtons about the end of the
last century.
See Erdeswick, pp. 235, 410; Shaw's Staffordshire, vol. ii. p. 97;
Gent. Mag. for 1822, vol. i. pp. 194, 415, 482.
ARMS.--_Per fesse or and azure, a chevron gules between three
mullets counter-changed, on a canton of the third the Royal lions of
England_, being an augmentation granted by Charles II.
Present Representative, John Newton Lane, Esq.