Alice must have had a very difficult life in England. Her father was prominent in the church and in politics and had to flee the country when Queen Mary came into power. Her uncle, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake before she was 20. Her first cousin, Margaret, the archbishop's daughter, died soon after marriage, and Alice ended up marrying Margaret's husband, Thomas Norton.
The Nortons of Sharpenhow, Bedfordshire were a prominent family. Thomas was nicknamed "the rack-master-general of England" for his torturous questioning of Catholics. He had a master's degree from Cambridge and was a member of parliament; a poet as well as an attorney.
Alice was a Protestant like her father. She had ten children. When she was about 50, whe was considered "insane" and lived with her oldest daughter, Anne. Her husband was imprisoned in the Tower for a while, then died in 1584. Alice didn't live to see her son, Walter, killed in a massacre on a ship between Boston and Virginia.
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