She had three elder sisters:[1] The antiquarian and biographer, John Aubrey, whose ancestor she was,[2] describes her in his Brief Lives (1693), stating that she had Chaucer at her fingers' ends:[3] Elizabeth Danvers, his mother, an Italian,[sic] prodigeous parts for a Woman.

Sir Charles and others sought out Henry Long at an 'ordinary' or inn in Corsham, and cudgelled him, but found the door locked when they were ready to leave.

The Danvers brothers fled to Whitley Lodge near Titchfield Abbey in Hampshire, where their friend, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, sheltered them.

[7] The disaster which had befallen his sons may have hastened the death of Sir John Danvers, who died two months later, on 19 December 1594, and was buried in Dauntsey church.

He is commemorated in verses composed by his relative by marriage, the poet George Herbert, after viewing his portrait:[8] Passe not by.

[11] Lady Carey's third son, Sir John Danvers, was a regicide after the First English Civil War.

The monument by Nicholas Stone, master mason to King James I, was installed about 1620 during her lifetime, and is said to be 'one of the finest pieces of sculpture of the age'.