Her father was the judge Christopher Wray and her mother was Anne Brocklesby (born Girlington) who died in 1593.
Her brother Sir William Wray was said to be the "principal patron of godly religion in Lincolnshire",[1] but she and her sister Frances paid for the education of the Protestant minister Richard Bernard.
Mary, Queen of Scots stayed two nights at the house of Godfrey Foljambe, at Walton near Chesterfield at the start of January 1569.
Various ministers tried to assist but it was John Darrell who was credited with completing the exorcism at her home in Walton and this became his speciality.
She joined a puritan group in Ashby de la Zouche led by Arthur Hildersham which also included Richard Bernard who she had been a patron of.