Peyton received £1000 from Richard Stubbes and Alice was given some landholdings and £100 per annum from her guardian.

She meticulously recorded that their expenses and her shopping trips cost the enormous sum of £163.

[2] In 1643 her husband as a committed Royalist was made governor of King's Lynn during the English Civil War.

The honour was short-lived as the town was besieged and when it surrendered their family had to pay over £1000 in compensation.

Her daughter, Elizabeth, married the Parliamentarian politician Sir William Spring.