Her father was vicar and her maternal grandfather is thought to have been Ralph Hutchinson, who was a biblical scholar and college head at Oxford University.
[1] Quakerism spread during Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth that followed the English Civil War.
[2] In 1656 she preached in Chadlington, and then went to Launceston prison in Cornwall to serve as secretary to the Quaker leader George Fox.
[2] Both men were jailed in 1657–1658 for refusing to pay tithes to the Church of England; Cole died in prison.
[1] Her husband George to publish a collection of personal testimonies to her memory, Piety Promoted by Faithfulness (1686).