[3] She was also one of Mary's, personal attendants, a member of her court and was imprisoned in the Tower of London for continuing to call her Princess after this had been forbidden by the King.
In an appeal for protection which she addressed to Thomas Cromwell, chief minister of King Henry VIII of England, in about 1536, Hussey asserted that her husband had kept her incarcerated at Farleigh Castle for four years, had starved her[8] and endeavoured on several occasions to poison her.
[6] She begged Cromwell to work to grant her a divorce from him, and he duly commissioned William Petrie and Thomas Benet to advance a bill in Parliament regarding the matter of the marriage.
Secondly, Hungerford was accused of having instructed a chaplain named Dr Maudlin to practise conjuring and magic to "compass or imagine" the kings death.
[10] They had four daughters,[11] who were raised in the Catholic faith of their ancestors:[12] Hussey died on 23 January 1554 and was buried in the Throckmorton family vault at St. Laurence's Church, Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire.