S Laney 4.3.1798 at Bath with E & M Jones / 5.3.1798 Laney at Richardson's, Bath with Jones's / 14.3.1798 Jones's & Laney to Chippenham (from Bath) / 27.6.1798 S Laney calls / 29.6.1798 Laney calls / 14.4.1799 meet miss Laney (after dining at Tooke's) / 21.4.1799 H(olcrof)ts, L Jones & miss Laney dine
The first entry was with two Jones sisters (see Jones, Margaret) also identified by their initials, the next two plain Laney with Jones's, the next used the S initial again, and the last is miss Laney with L Jones. I suggest these were all one unmarried female whose first name began with S. It is not too surprising that she appears to have called twice alone on Godwin in London. She was also mentioned as Miss Laney in Louisa Jones' letter (Abinger c4 f8-9) to Godwin in Bath dated 9.3.1798.
Sarah Laney dau of John Laney of Shorwell, Isle of Wight married 28/12/1801 William Knyvett DNB 1779-1856. Her sister Jane had married his brother Charles Knyvett in 1795 (see Knyvett). Thanks to D Brunning for this info, see comments on my Research Tutorial article. John Laney of Newport I o W carpenter & his wife Ann mantua maker took an apprentice in 1786 IoW Record Office NBC/3/386. The stuff below is now a bit redundant but I'll leave it.
She may have been the Sarah Laney born Locking Somerset 1780 daughter of Richard 1756-1826 yeoman farmer and his wife Betty 1756-1786 (user-submitted tree on Ancestry) and/or the Sarah Laney who married Samuel Burge 16.5.1808 at Bristol St Michael's. Burge died 15.6.1843 of Blackfriars aged 56 over 30 years employee of Castle & Co distillers of Milk St Bristol, and appeared in the 1841 census at Blackfryars Bristol as a cooper aged 56 with Sarah Burge aged 50. Unless she was really 60 that is unlikely to have been her. A Sarah Laney was buried at Williton Somerset 1.3.1829 (FamilySearch, which doesn't give the age, though the register probably did). Williton is near Watchet and Locking near Weston-super-Mare. The name spelt Lany was found in London at the time but Laney seems local to Weston-super-Mare area of Somerset. Taunton wills were mostly lost in 2nd world war but may help