[2] Jane would become renowned for her obstinate recusancy towards the Protestant religion, which led to her being fined and losing properties in Debden and Wimbish.
Jane was fully aware of the penalty of peine forte et dure, or being pressed to death, that was imposed on those who refused to plead but, reportedly being influenced by Margaret Clitherow's example, was prepared to become a martyr.
While John Gerard reported that Jane left the court "rejoicing that she had not been thought unworthy to suffer for Jesus' sake the form of death she had hoped would be hers", the Chronicle of Saint Monica's Convent, Louvain states that her son William, upon hearing of the sentence, "by bribes [...] got one to speak a good word unto the Queen [Elizabeth I] in his mother's behalf", with the Queen being reported to have criticised the cruelty of Jane being sentenced to peine forte et dure "for so small a matter" and to have decreed that she should remain alive.
[6][2] She initially returned to her Bullocks residence and continued to harbour two Jesuit priests, before later moving to Louvain where, in the same Saint Monica's Convent that her daughter Mary was prioress of, she would die peacefully in 1610.
[6][7] As for their sons, John and Thomas intended to become Jesuit priests but died before they could be ordained, while Robert fought against Protestant factions during the Eighty Years' War, leaving William to protect the family's religious and material interests back in England.