Her mother was Lady Anna Stourton and her father was Sir John Arundell who was a leader of the Catholic resistance to the new religion.
[2] One of her relatives, Thomas Bosgrave, and two family servants, John (or Terence) Carey and Patrick Salmon, shared the same sentence.
[1] In 1597 she was in Brussels and it was later said that Cornelius had appeared and he suggested that she change her plans and that she should join the new Benedictine convent there.
Another English Catholic exile Mary Percy had just purchased a house in Brussels and she had asked Benedictine nun Joanne Berkeley to be the abbess.
[4] Whatever the reason, she and her sister, Gertrude, entered the new convent on 11 July 1598 and Dorothy took her habit in the following year.
[1] The Benedictine convent in Brussels, the Abbey of the Glorious Assumption of Our Lady, was funded by her family's gift.