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Friends Meeting House, North Brink, Wisbech

History of the Friends Meeting House

This is the location of the burial of Jane Stuart, daughter of King James II. She had joined the Quakers for which she was jailed but then took refuge in Wisbech. When she died in July 1742, she was buried in the graveyard at the back of the Meeting House.

from Leaflets of Local Lore by Urbs Camboritum (Cambs Collection)

Tales of Old Cambridgeshire, Polly Howat, 1990, contains a chapter, The Royal Recluse, about Jane Stuart. jane, born 1654, had been due to marry but her fiance was killed in a coach accident. It was the after the burial of her fiance that she left London  and went into hiding in Wisbech. She lived a reclusive life and made a living from spinning worsted.

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