Her parents were Elizabeth (born Parke) and John Roper, Baron Teynham who lived at the Lodge in Lynsted in Kent which was built in 1599.
The child's father was a soldier named Sir Robert Lovel of Merton Abbey in Kent (who she had married at some date before).
She left the convent anyway in 1609 as the prioress Joanne Berkeley did not agree with her view about confessors being Jesuits.
Berkeley had decided to ban Jesuit special assistants at confession and this caused Lovel, Elizabeth Knatchbull and Elizabeth/Magdalen Digby to leave.
[4] When Lovel created a new English Carmel in Antwerp Anne Worsley who had been a prioress previously transferred to the new house.