He delivered into the hands of the Lady Catharine Knollys a certain message.

This was of a Wednesday.

On the following Friday it was decreed that the gallows should do its work.

Two more days and there would be an end of "Jessamy" Law.
That Wednesday night a covered carriage came to the door of the house of Knollys.

Its driver was muffled in such fashion that he could hardly have been known.