Note 261a — Chapter XXVI · THE MARINE PAVILION AND ITS OCCUPANTS.

Lade was in receipt of an annual pension of £100, as driving tutor to His Royal Highness. His wife, Lady Lade, who was born in Luckner’s Lane, St. Giles’s, London, was one of the most abandoned women of the Court. She was for some time the mistress of the notorious malefactor John Rann, known as “Sixteen Stringed Jack,” who expiated his crime upon the scaffold, at Tyburn. The Duke of York then took her under his protection, and he transferred her by marriage, to Sir John Lade. Such was the style of language of this infamous woman, that when the Prince of Wales wanted an object of comparison in the vulgar practice of swearing, he was universally accustomed to say, “He swears like Letitia Lade.” Some of the descendants of Sir John are still living, and reside at Ovingdean.