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Englefield sat as M.P. for Berkshire in all Mary's parliaments except that of April 1554, but received no higher political office than the lucrative mastership of the court of wards.
Englefield lived first at Rome, then in the Low Countries, and finally at Valladolid.
Even then some legal difficulties stood in the way of their appropriation by the crown, for Englefield, obviously with an 'eye to this contingency, had conditionally settled them on his nephew Francis.
The Manor of Englefield had supposedly been the residence of the Englefield family since the reign of King Edgar the Peaceable in the early 9th century.
Though Sir Francis Englefield tried hard to keep his home, after almost 800 years of residence, the family was finally forced to leave, in 1559, due to their catholic religious beliefs.
It was probably built at the peak of Sir Francis Englefield's carrier at the court of Queen Mary, though it was apparently altered considerably by the Earl of Essex.
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