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that the company suspected of the murder done in Wiltshire were 
in one Reed’s boats, then riding at an anchor at the mouth of the 
same river, was by them required to give notice thereof unto the 
Mayor of Southampton, for the apprehending of them, who speedily 
did effect the same: whereupon the said Grose, passing over Itching 
Ferry with his wife the Saturday following, one Floria, an Italian, 
and one Humphrey Drewell, the said Earl of Southampton’s servant, 
being in the said passage-boat, threatened to cast him, the said 
Grose, overboard ; and said “they would teach him to meddle with 
his fellows,” with many other threatening words. 
On Thursday, the 17th of October, 1594, two hours after Arthur 
Brumfield brought back the four horses to Tichfield stable, the 
Earl of Southampton’s barber came unto Thomas Dredge and 
demanded of him “who told him that Sir Henry Danvers was at 
Whitley Lodge?” whereunto the said Dredge answered that “ Mr. 
Dymmocke’s man that brought Mr. Drewell’s horse from Whitley 
Lodge to Tichfield stable, the Saturday after the murder com- 
mitted, told him thereof ;” whereupon the said barber sware deeply 
“by God’s wounds,” and charged him, “ upon pain of his life, not 
to speake any more of it, for that it was his Lord’s will and 
pleasure that the said Sir Henry Danvers should be there at 
Whitley Lodge.” And farther, the said Gilbert the Scot remained 
at Tichfield House nine or ten days after the murder was com- 
mitted (the Earl of Southampton being then there), during which 
time the said Gilbert rode twice to London and came back again, 
and carried letters secretly within the linings of his hat; and 
whilst he staid at Tichfield (which he had often so done before 
when he hath been examined), he never dined or supped openly in 
the hall, but some where else, secretly as it was supposed, and was 
much conversant with Mr. Hunnings and Robinson. Also, two 
letters of Perkinson’s own hand writing, sent unto Nicholas Caplyn 
his deputy, after the said knight and their followers were escaped 
and gone from Cawshot Castle, yet extant. 
The names of principal men servants, followers, and attendants upon 
the Earl of Southampton not yet examined, but very necessary they 
