 She briefly touches on a time in London, where she "worke fine workes with [her] needle" and mingled "not with people of themeaner sort, but with them, that belonged to the kings court", "knights and Ladies of great account".The narrative is thereon predominated by her "bad husband", who unwisely sells off his land, leaving her family in poverty, and how "the poorer hee was the worse hee was".Living in "extreame povertie and want", Thurgood declined into requiring her own "poore labours" to feed her, now malnourished, young children, dreading their starvation.