 Unlike her husband, she did not take part in requesting a pardon for her son when he was jailed.Frances also disapproved of John's first wife, Joyce, which led Clavell to address his mother in the second edition of "A Recantation of an Ill Led Life," where he asks both her and his sister Elizabeth to accept Joyce as a good wife.John Clavell's uncle was Sir William Clavell (1568–1643).