c1450-c1520. Jane eldest daughter of John and Anne Lambard www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4923577863/ - Jane was "well married, somewhat too soon" to "an honest citizen" William Shore a Mercer or Goldsmith but the marriage was not happy. Jane petitioned in March 1476 under her maiden name for an annulment on the grounds of William's "impotence and frigidity".which probably "the more easily made her incline unto the king's appetite when he required her" Edward "pierced Mistress Shore's soft tender heart, proper she was, and fair" if rather short in stature "yet delighted not men so much in her beauty as in her pleasant behaviour for a proper wit had she, and could both read and write. She never abused to any man's hurt, but to many a man's comfort and relief" Edward lV in later years "had iii concubines, which in iii divers properties exceled", Two were "greater personages" than the third and "content to be nameless" suggesting these affairs were discreet. One the merriest, another the wiliest, the thirde the holiest harlot of his realme. . . But the merriest was this Shores wife in whom the king therefore took special pleasure, for many he had, but her he loved." After his death she became the mistress of William, Lord Hastings and on his sudden execution, possibly of the Marquis of Dorset. By order of Richard lll the bishop of London made Jane walk in open penance through the streets, taper in hand, dressed only in her kirtle, but whilst in prison she met and later married the king's solicitor Thomas Lyneham despite Richard lll asking the bishop to "exhort and stir him to the contrary," suggesting that she should be put in the "rule and guiding of her father.". In her father's will she has a son Julian Lyneham and she is left a bed of arras with a velour tester and curtains and a stained cloth of Mary Magdalene and Martha. In her mother's will she was left an equal portion with her 4 brothers - Lyneham (who became clerk controller to Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII) being an executor. Later she is associated with Eton College leaving it money in her will. Described by Sir Thomas More, who had never met her "as a small woman with a great personality, one who delighted men more by her behavior than her beauty. " According to More, Jane was not mercenary.She tried to appease the King's anger and bring men out of favor into his grace, and "in many weighty sutes, she stode many men in gret stede, either for non or very smal rewardes, & those rather gay then rich."