Notations within the volume indicate that it was begun in 1672-73 and completed in 1684, which locates its composition within the immediate context of the Exclusion Crisis with evidence from the manuscript pointing to suggest that Calthorpe herself had royalist leanings.

[2] Despite the variety, clear themes link the various texts, particularly a concern for ethical Christian behaviour and stewardship including financial, familial, and romantic matters which is reflected in her charitable actions through her will.

[3] The autograph manuscript volume was discovered by scholars when it was sold at a Sotheby's auction in 2006 as part of a sale of property from an estate at Shrubland Park, Coddenham.

[5] In this work the speaker adopts a "pillgrims habitt" and borrows "Iacobs Ladder" in order to "climbe the skie and trauers the territoryes of the princes of the aire”, which is written in the style of a travel tale or fantasy journey.

"A Castell in the Aire" belongs to a long tradition of fantastic voyage accounts in ancient and mediaeval literature, including works by Sir John Mandeville and Lucian's True History.

These tales remained popular in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as authors like Thomas More reworked traditional travel narratives to fit their country's modern political, economic, and religious environment.

[10] A marble monument is mounted on the south wall of St Peter's Church Ampton depicting her knelling by a bookstand with allegorical carvings including a skull and an hourglass.

A Virgin votary is oft in Snares This safely vow'd & made ye Poor her HeirsToday the almshouses form a private residence in Ampton known as Park lodge.