On one occasion he writes to his daughter, Bridget, expressing his satisfaction that her sister (i.e. Claypole) "sees her own vanity and carnal mind, bewailing it, and seeks after what will satisfy".

Lucy Hutchinson, a biographer and scholar who married one of the regicides, termed Claypole and all her sisters (excepting Bridget Fleetwood) "insolent fools."

[7][8] According to Ludlow and Heath, Claypole interceded for the life of Dr. John Hewett, but her own letter on the discovery of the plot in which he had been engaged throws a doubt on this story.

[15] She died on 6 August 1658, and the Mercurius Politicus in announcing her death describes her as "a lady of an excellent spirit and judgment, and of a most noble disposition, eminent in all princely qualities conjoined with sincere resentments of true religion and piety."

[16] After the Restoration, Firth states in the Dictionary of National Biography that her body was exhumed, along with about twenty others, and placed into a pit in a graveyard near the back door of the prebendary's lodgings.

[17][18] However, in 1869 Dean Stanley conducted a search for the remains of James I, in the course of which he found the coffin of Lady Claypole,[19] in the vault nearest to the dais west of Henry VII's tomb, with her name engraved on a silver coffin-plate.

[22] She inspired the figure of Delmira, in the Italian tragedy of 1671 Il Cromuele (The Cromwell) written by Girolamo Graziani, set in England during the Civil War.