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 Collins Stoddard the death of Angelique - the only clue being a small pinprick on her skin. Elizabeth was a collector of hatpins, which led her daughter, Carolyn Stoddard Loomis to believe her mother had killed Angelique. The truth was that Roger had used one of Elizabeth's hatpins to kill Angelique, who was secretly his lover. Roger killed both Elizabeth and Carolyn to try and cover up the crime, before being killed by the Angelique, who had been unwittingly resurrected by her twin sister, Alexis Stokes. In 1991 Dan Curtis Productions revived the "Dark Shadows" series as a one-hour night time soap