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replanting. A recent photo of the box hedging is on The Friend website however the planting does not match the planting in a much older black and white photograph in the
National Trust's Peckover House collection online, notably the '7' and the '4'. 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. The travel writer James Hooper was shown around the Friends Meeting House and Burying Ground by
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under escort could walk to London from
Wisbech in three days. If she hurriedly left the court of James II around the time he fled, she would be heading for Wisbech during the winter of 1688-89. The roads would be at their worst and on her arrival there would be less work available than at harvest
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had formerly been used for religious prisoners, both
Catholic and Protestant and later a Quaker, John Inds was taken from a peaceable meeting on 16 February 1663 and imprisoned for three years in Wisbech Gaol. It was said that Stuart reaped and worked in gardens in the summer and did knitting and
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William Watts in 1834. Box hedging remains around Stuart's grave. Today it forms the shape of a rectangle enclosing 'JS, AGE, 88, 1742' although in the past a drawing by Algernon Peckover showed it as forming "JS, aged 88, 1742" over the centuries parts appear to have required
222:, 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. Her final resting place is in the new burial ground behind the Friends Meeting House on the North Brink.
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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. She died at the age of 88 on 12 July 1742. She is referred to in the
178:; she recognized his coach and hid, perhaps thinking he was seeking her out to be a political pawn. It is said that Stuart preferred her simple life to that of one at court, and claimed she would not give it up to be Queen of England.
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time. Beresford writes that her escape took her through 'half the counties of
England', if true this would suggest she did not make directly for Wisbech at the time she left London, and her journey time would be considerably longer.
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when she was born. The surname of Stuart's mother is not known; it is claimed that Jane once revealed that her mother's name was Alice. James returned to
England, bringing Jane Stuart with him, when she was about six years old.
229:) hedging. Stuart's grave is stated as "exhibiting the initials 'J.S.' with the words and figures 'aged 88. 1742' and is supposed to record the sepulture of one of the descendants of the royal family of Stuarts" in
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Handsome Old Bridge that preceded the iron bridge; however, this stone bridge was not built until 1758 – Jane would have stood at an earlier wooden
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If as reported she saw his coach at the Rose and Crown Inn from her market stall, then her market stall was on the Market Place (the New Market) and not on the Old Market (where she lived in a basement)
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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
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Algernon Peckover. Alterations and additions of 1971-1973 to the design of Cecil J Bourne.
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