 However, it would be safe to say that, after her marriage, Jane did not share her father's religious beliefs.Jane and her husband William Hough were staunch Catholics who, together with their daughter, Alice, her husband, William Whitmore and their children, all came to the attention of the authorities as recusant Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth I.

Gregory Cromwell came to share his father's interests and religious beliefs and was closely following the religious developments taking place in England while his father was in office.Gregory's close friends, William Cecil and Ralph Sadler, were known adherents of the reformed faith.