Her husband was considered to be her social superior so she was one of the last women to be burned at the stake (after being killed).

While he was serving his sentence she started an adulterous relationship with a man called Thomas Aikney.

John Broadingham completed his sentence, but by this time his wife was living with Thomas Aikney in Lincolnshire.

Elizabeth was convicted of killing her social superior making the crime not murder but petty treason.

For this reason she was not only strangled on 20 March but her body was burned at the stake at a place called Tyburn in York.