Robert Throckmorton 1584 for acting as a go-between for Mary, Queen of Scots and the Spanish Ambassador in an attempt to invade England and place Mary on the throne. A niece Elizabeth, also known as Bess, the daughter of Sir Nicholas, and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, also got into trouble by secretly marrying Sir Walter Raleigh. Robert Throckmorton died on 12 February 1581, six days after making a will in which he styled himself as being of Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire, but asked to be buried at Coughton, where an alabaster and marble tomb was accordingly erected to his memory. There is
Elizabeth Whately there with her widowed mother, when Whately came with Willis to take the waters. The Whatelys moved to Halesworth, a living taken by Richard who was required to give up his college fellowship at Oriel on marrying. Elizabeth found the parishioners there to be in a state of "heathenish ignorance". They had five children; Elizabeth herself and her two elder daughters were in time active in religiously-inspired works. Elizabeth was ill in Halesworth, and a sister came to visit, becoming ill also; the malady was called "typhus fever". They returned to Oxford after three years, when Richard became head of