 Once back in England, due to continued persecution, she wore a plain gray dress and used the alias of "Mrs Long".Upon the death of Charles II, finding their tenure so near to the court to be rather insecure, Frances Bedingfeld obtained, with the help of the Queen Dowager, a large house at Hammersmith with a spacious garden.From this community, she founded Bar Convent in York in 1677, at the invitation of Sir Thomas Gascoigne.This was the first Convent to be opened in England after the dissolution of Monasteries in 1536 by Henry VIII.