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Lane, John

Lane, John (1590–1640).
He was sued by Susanna Hall on 15 July 1613 in the consistory court at Worcester because ‘about five weeks past the defendant reported that the plaintiff had the running of the reins’—i.e. suffered from gonorrhoea—‘and had been naught with Ralph Smith’ at the house of John Palmer, a gentleman of Clopton. He was excommunicated. Technically a gentleman, in 1619 he was prosecuted for rioting and libelling the vicar and aldermen and charged by the churchwardens for drunkenness.

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