[1] Honywood was known for her work in the prisons looking after the people arrested for their Protestant beliefs.

Honywood's compassion meant that she attended his execution to ensure that his death was quick.

There was a plaque in Markshall church which recorded her pious life.

[1] There are several other portraits, although one showing her with a Venetian glass was lost in the 19th century.

According to the story, Mary Honywood replied to John Foxe, when he said that she would have a long life, that "as well might you have said … that if I should throw this glass against the wall, I might believe it would not break to pieces".