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CHARLES II - GAUNTLET GLOVES
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A FINE PAIR OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY EMBROIDERED GAUNTLET GLOVES, REPUTEDLY GIVEN BY KING CHARLES II TO JANE LANE, LADY FISHER, "the royalist heroine" (ODNB) for her assistance in helping in his escape towards Bristol, and onwards to France after the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651. After spending the night at Jane's home at Bentley Hall, near Wolverhampton Charles accompanied Jane "a manservant, under the assumed name of William Jackson... According to an account published at the Restoration, over the next week the king's protectress 'comported herself with extraordinary prudence and fidelity'... particularly in the streets of Stratford upon Avon, where she and her royal companion collided with a troop of parliamentarian cavalry, a moment of extreme danger which she surmounted by a cool composure" (ODNB). Later Jane herself had to escape to France, where in December she joined the court in exile, and was even rumoured to have become Charles's mistress.
Provenance: "Gloves given by King Charles the Second to Miss Jenny Lane to mind her of her aid in his escape to Bristow after the battle of Worcester on the Seventh day of October 1651", ink note on verso of frame; Audrey Baker (1908-2011, author of English Panel Paintings 1400-1558, 2011); by descent.

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