They talked earnestly apart, observed by Sir Ralph, Clarendon's informant.

The duke seemed abstracted all day; left the field early, sought his mother, and after a heated conference of which the sounds reached the ante-room, went forth in visible trouble and anger, a thing never before seen in him after talk with his mother.

She was found "overwhelmed with tears and in the highest agony imaginable".

"It is a notorious truth" that, when told of his murder, "she seemed not in the least degree surprised." The following curious manuscript account of the affair is, after the prefatory matter, the copy of a letter dated 1652.

There is nothing said of a ghostly knife, the name of the seer is not Parker, and in its whole effect the story tallies with Clarendon's version, though the narrator knows nothing of the scene with the Countess of Buckingham.
CAVALIER VERSION {121} "1627.