[4][a] She left court for a life in keeping with her values as a Quaker around the age of 34, when her father, having become king a few years earlier, was exiled to France.
[4][5] The meeting house Stuart attended (and where she is buried) was a thatched building on the North Brink, as shown in a watercolour painting by Algernon Peckover and in use by the Friends from 1711.
[17] The story of Stuart's life was the basis of a novel The Royal Quaker (Methuen) by Mrs Bertram Tanqueray, wife of a clergyman of Coldham, near Wisbech.
[19] An earlier burial-ground, situated in the adjacent Parish of Walsoken, Norfolk still belonged to the Society of Friends but had not been used since 1711 when the new meeting room was converted from two cottages.
1742' and is supposed to record the sepulture of one of the descendants of the royal family of Stuarts" in The History of Wisbech published by William Watts in 1834.
[24] When the British Archaeological Congress took place in Wisbech 1878, Mr Jonathan Peckover took members on a tour of the site and stated that the hedging had been periodically renewed.
[25] The travel writer James Hooper was shown around the Friends Meeting House and Burying Ground by Alexander Peckover in 1897, later in his newspaper article he notes 'the headstone inscription - Jane Stuart Died 1742 Aged 88' and 'this highly accomplished woman once fainted in the God's Acre of the peace-loving Friends, and under the turfy spot on which she fell lie her remains'.