 Five of the seven sessions of the peace juries that subsequently sat suggested the latter, the other the two decided it was the former date.It was probably the maid, Lovel, who gave Cooke and Gyse access to de Cantilupe's room.Having killed him, according to the later court records, they washed his corpse "with heated-up water so that they not be discredited by the effusion of the blood of his wounds".