 As well as being named a suspect, Maud also lodged her own accusations against sixteen men and women.Pedersen argues that, "given her almost certain complicity in the murder it must have come as a surprise to the two assassins, William’s squire, Richard Gyse, and Roger Cooke, that Maud named them as the murderers".Bellamy suggests that an accusation of this nature would have been expected of any woman who was in the house and on the scene when her husband was killed.