With her maternal Catholic relations still scattered in Continental Europe, and at odds with her niece Mary Staton
(née Barker) she seems to have lived in the village of her girlhood virtually as an alien...
Wealth and Poverty
Jane Barker
Times were hard for small landowners, and much harder for Catholics. JB
's niece Mary Staton
brought a suit against her in Chancery
to force her to pay a debt.
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press, 2000.
