Elizabeth was the only child and daughter of Nicholls Hackett. On her marriage to Sir Nicholas Carew in 1710 he settled most of his North Crawley Estate on his daughter. Nicholls Hackett only reserved for himself 2 annuities of £50 and £84 .
Sir Nicholas from Beddington in Surrey spent money like water and by the time Nicholls died in1720 he had dissipated most of his wife’s endowment. In February 1716 he mortgaged the North Crawley Estate for £7000 to the Lord Chief Justice Sir Peter King and in 1719 and 1721 King advanced further sums. In 1722 Sir Peter foreclosed on the mortgage so Sir Nicholas was forced to sell the Estate to William Temple who it is believed was a nominee of Sir Peter’s and William Temple took up residence at Crawley Grange.
William Temple only lived for a short time at the Grange and on 25th November 1723 the Estate was sold to William Lowndes of Winslow who actually resided in Westminster and was Chief Secretary to the Treasury for 30 years . Lowndes was in office at the time of the formation of the Bank of England in 1694 and helped high society out of the nightmare of The South Sea Bubble.