He also communicated a "private token" to Parker, the "percipient," Sir George's old servant.

On each occasion of the appearance, Parker was reading at midnight.

Parker, _after_ the murder, told one Ceeley, who told it to a clergyman, who told Douch, who told Glanvil.
In Lilly's version the ghost had a habit of walking in Parker's room, and finally bade him tell Buckingham to abstain from certain company, "or else he will come to destruction, and that suddenly".

Parker, thinking he had dreamed, did nothing; the ghost reappeared, and communicated a secret "which he (Buckingham) knows that none in the world ever knew but myself and he".

The duke, on hearing the story from Parker, backed by the secret, was amazed, but did not alter his conduct.