 His salary allowed his family to live comfortably.From Speght's work it can be discerned that her mother died after the publication of "Mouzell" in 1617 and before the publication of "Mortalities Memorandum" in 1621; Speght's father was remarried in February 1621; he died in 1637.Rachel Speght was married at age 24, on 2 August 1621, to a Calvinist minister named William Procter at St Mary Woolchurch Haw in London.