Jane Lane (c. 1626 – 9 September 1689) played a role in the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

Jane was the daughter of Thomas Lane and Anne Bagot of the parish of Bentley and Hyde (near Walsall).

Known birth (and other) dates for Jane Lane's siblings are: In May 1644 her family home Bentley Hall was looted by parliamentary forces during the Civil War.

Wilmot had gone to Bentley Hall in Staffordshire, the home of Colonel John Lane, who had been an officer in the Royalist Army since 1642.

Wilmot learned that Jane had obtained a permit from the military for herself and a servant to travel to the seaport of Bristol, to visit a relation, Ellen Norton, who was having a baby.

[1] When the King reached Bentley Hall early on 10 September 1651, he was dressed as a tenant farmer's son and adopted the alias ‘William Jackson’ for the next part of his journey.

[1] Lord Wilmot refused to travel in disguise; he rode openly half a mile ahead of the party and if challenged he said he would claim to be out hunting.

When they arrived at Bromsgrove they found that the horse ridden by Charles and Lane had lost a shoe.

The King when he later told his story to Samuel Pepys and others said, As I was holding my horse's foot, I asked the smith what news.

The party then continued through Stratford-upon-Avon, and on to Long Marston where they spent the night of 10 September at the house of John Tomes, another relation of Lane.

The next morning they travelled on to Chipping Sodbury and then to Bristol, arriving at Abbots Leigh on the evening of 12 September.

On the morning of 16 September Charles and Lane set out and reached the Manor House, Castle Cary.

The King spent the next few days hiding at Trent whilst Wyndham and Wilmot attempted to find a ship from Lyme Regis or Weymouth.

Before Bentley Hall was searched, she left, walking to Yarmouth while posing as a "country wench", and travelled to France.

Charles was then able to give her a pension of £1000 per year and many gifts, including portraits of the King and a lock of his hair.

)[citation needed] She was married to Sir Clement Fisher, 2nd Baronet of Packington Hall, Warwickshire (1613–1683), on 8 December 1663 by Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury.

It was part of a romanticised series about the escape painted by Isaac Fuller shortly after the Restoration.