abstract:Sir Richard Lane (1584–1650) was an English barrister who practised mostly in the Court of Exchequer. He acted as defence counsel to the Earl of Strafford when he was impeached and attainted, and also represented Archbishop Williams and eleven other bishops who were imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1642.
Richard Lewis Hearne, or television's Mr Pastry, also has links with Norwich being born in Lady Lane - on the spot where Millennium Plain and The Forum now stand.