The narrative now develops new features; the token given on the ghost's third coming obviously concerns Buckingham's mother, the Countess, the "one person more" who knew the secret communicated.

The ghost produces no knife from under his gown; no warning of Buckingham's death by violence is mentioned.

A note in the MS.

avers that Clarendon himself had papers bearing on the subject, and that he got his information from Sir Ralph Freeman (who introduced the unnamed percipient to the duke), and from some of Buckingham's servants, "who were informed of much of it before the murder of the duke".

Clarendon adds that, in general, "no man looked on relations of that sort with less reverence and consideration" than he did.