“Richard Verney.[B]
Jo: fferrers.[C]
W. Combes.”[126][D]
[B] Sir Richard Verney, Knt., would be a friend, belike, of Sir Thomas Lucy, Knt., of Charlcote (a Warwickshire Puritan gentleman).
[C] Of the Ferrers, of Baddlesley Clinton (a very old Catholic family).
[D] From whom Shakespeare bought land. To John Combes, brother to William, the poet bequeathed his sword by Will.
(No endorsement).
Mistress Dorothie Robinson, Widdow, of Spur Alley, on the 7th of November, 1605, also deposed as follows: —
Gunpowder Plot Books — Part I., No. 41.
“The examinacon of Dorathie Robinson[127] widdow of Spurr Alley.
“Shee sayeth that one Mr. Christopher Wright gent did lye in her house about a Moneth past for xviiien dayes together and no more. And there did come to him one Mr. Winter wch did continually frequent his Company and about a moneth past the said Winter brought to her house two hampers[A] locked wth two padlockes, and caused them to be placed in a little Closet at the end of Mr. Wright’s Chamber. But what was in the said hamps, was privately conveyed away by Winter wthout her knowledge, and the hamps was geven to her use.
“Shee sayeth that Mr. Wright could not chuse but know of the conveying of those thinges wch were in the hamper as well as Mr. Winter.