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4 o’clock in the afternoon of the same day, the said knights and 
company to the number of thirteen or fourteen persons, whereof 
Mr. Thos. Dymmocke was one, came hastily shouldering one another 
into the said Johnson’s boat, all but the said Gilbert, who was fain 
to pass away overland by reason the said boat was almost overladen, 
being not above the burden of one ton; and so the said Johnson 
did set the said knights and their company ashore at a place called 
Bald Head, over against Cawshot Castle, and within one mile and a 
half of Tichfield. Then one of the said company asked the said 
Dymmocke if he did know the way to Tichfield, who answered “he 
did know the way if it were at midnight ;” and the said Johnson 
had for his pains two shillings and sixpence. Farther, on the same 
Friday 11th Oct. late at night, certain strange men to the number 
of seven or eight persons, came into the kitchen at Whitley Lodge, 
and there supped with such cold meat as was then in the house, 
and immediately after they had supped Thos. Dymmocke com- 
manded his servants Joan Lawrence, Dorothy Bell, and one Richard, 
his boy, to go into Fatting Leaze in the Park with them to help 
take up their horses, which being done, they presently rode away 
that night, but some others that then came to Whitley Lodge went 
to the chamber and staid there all night, and had for their supper 
a mess of milk boiled, and the next morning early they went away 
on foot, and Thos. Dymmocke with them, and as it was supposed 
to Tichfield House. And on Saturday, 12th of said October, Wm. 
Heywood returning from Cawshot Castle, who carried letters the 
night before from his master, Capt. Perkinson, to the deputy for 
the apprehending of the said knights and their company, he found 
in his master’s chamber three or four of the Earl of Southampton’s 
gentlemen talking with his master, Perkinson, whereof one as he 
thinketh was Mr. Bruen, and heard his said master say unto them 
that “he thought he should lose his office for the knights being in the 
castle,” whereunto the said Earl’s gentlemen replied, “it was great 
pity it should be so.” Then the said Heywood told his master they 
were all gone before he came, whereupon the said Perkinson said 
that “he was very glad thereof, whatsoever it cost him.” 
After which wilful escape of the said knights and their company 
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