Walter Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury, executed 28 Jul 1549, for "unnatural crimes", having been found guilty of employing as his house chaplain, knowing him to be a traitor; with ordering another chaplain, and one other to practise conjuring to determine the king's length of life, and his chances of victory over the northern rebels; and finally with committing offences forbidden by the Buggery Act 1533."

Hungerford's treatment of his third wife, Elizabeth Hussey, was remarkable for its brutality. In an appeal for protection which she addressed to Thomas Cromwell in about 1536, she asserted that he kept her incarcerated at Farleigh for three or four years, made some fruitless attempts to divorce her, and endeavoured on several occasions to poison her.