[1] After this, his wife fell in acquaintance with one Greene of Feuersham, seruant to sir Anthonie A|ger, from which Greene maister Arden had wrested a péece of ground on the backeside of the abbeie of Feuersham, and there had blowes and great threats passed betwixt them about that matter. Therefore she knowing that Gréene hated hir husband,She deuiseth another waie [...]o dispatch hir [...]usband Ar|den. began to practise with him how to make him awaie; and concluded, that if he could get anie that would kill him, he should haue ten pounds for a reward. This Gréene hauing dooings for his master sir Anthonie Ager, had occasion to go vp to London, where his maister then laie, and hauing some charge vp with him, desired one Bradshaw a goldsmith of Feuer|sham that was his neighbor, to accompanie him to Grauesend, and he would content him for his pains. This Bradshaw, being a verie honest man, was content, and road with him. And when they came to Rainham downe, they chanced to sée three or foure seruingmen that were comming from Léeds: and therewith Bradshaw espied comming vp the hill from Rochester,A notorious murthering ruffian. one blacke Will, a terrible cruell ruffian with a sword and a buckler, and an other with a great staffe on his necke.