2. That she really was executed for the murder of her husband, Page, along with her lover, George Strangwich, and two assistants. 3. That Strangwich had not been in the Navy, but was a shop assistant of Mr. Glanville. 4. That John Glanville, Serjeant-at-Law, presumably her brother, was present at the trial, but was not judge at the time. The tragic story was not only turned into ballads, but also was dramatised by Ben Jonson and Decker. In Halliwell's _Dictionary of Old English Plays_ (1860) is this entry:-- "Page, of Plymouth. A play by Ben Johnson and Decker, written in 1599, upon the story of the murder of one Page at Plymouth."[33] [33] Dr. Brushfield has sifted the whole story in the pages of _The Western Antiquary_, ix., p. 35. A little way out of the town on the Plymouth road, by the Drake statue, is the gateway of old Fitzford House. About this a good deal of both history and legend hangs. The house was that of old John Fitz, whose splendid monument is in Tavistock Church. Late in life he had a son of the name also of John, an only child, whose story is tragical. The heir was fourteen only when he lost his father. John Fitz, who was "a very comely person," was married before he had attained his majority to a daughter of Sir William Courtenay. Of this marriage one child, Mary, was born in 1596, when her father was just twenty-one years old.[34] The young gentleman being now of age, and finding himself free from all restraint, began to live a very rackety life for three years, when an incident happened that ought to have sobered him. What follows is quoted, condensed, from _The Bloudie Booke: or The Tragical End of Sir John Fitz._ London, 1605. [34] The story of John Fitz and of Lady Howard has been worked out very carefully by Mrs. George Radford, to whose paper in the _Transactions of the Devonshire Association_, 1890, I am much indebted for what follows. "Meeting (June 4th, 1599) at Tavistocke a dinner wyth manie of his neighbors and friends, with great varietie of merriments and discourse they outstript the noontide. Amongst other their table-talk Sir John (he was not knighted at the time) was vanting his free Tenure in holding his lande, boasting that he helde not a foote of any but the Queene in England; to whoome Mayster Slanninge replyed, that although of ceurtesie it were neglected, yet of dewe hee was to paye him so muche by the yeere for some small lande helde of him; uppon which wordes Sir John told him with a great oath he lyed, and withall gave fuell to his rage, offering to stab him. But Maister Slanning with a great knife warded the hazard."