On St. Valentine's Day, Gilbert Pickering takes the Throckmorton girls back to his home in Tichmarch. Elizabeth Throckmorton is allegedly in the throes of a fit until she gets on her horse, and her fits are absent for the entire journey. However, the moment she crosses the threshold of Pickering's home, her fits resume. They cause her to gasp, thrash and become dumb, deaf and blind. When she emerges from the fits, she claims that she was merely sleeping and not to remember anything of what transpired.(12-13)

Elizabeth Throckmorton, visiting her uncle Glibert Pickering, allegedly experiences fits whenever someone prays or reads from the Bible. Her torments, screeching and sneezing last for the duration of the prayer or reading, and end when it does. When asked whether she had prayed herself, she claims that "it would not suffer her: then whether shee used to pray at home, shee answered that it would not giue her so much time." When another guest tells her to "pray to your selfe secretly in your hart and spirite, and beginning to tell her that God understoode the inward sighs and grones of the hart, as well as the lowdest cries of the mouth," she falls into the strongest torments yet.(12-14)