 The murder cast a long shadow for her and William's staff.In what Sillem calls a "curious exception" to the unknown fates of most of those who had been outlawed, at the supplication of Queen Anne in 1387, King Richard pardoned John Tailour of Barneby, Cantiupe's steward.Sillem believes that this pardon, "so many years after the event and to apparently only one of the outlaws adds yet another element of mystery".