Note 108 — THE NORTHUMBERLAND MANUSCRIPT

If we were to adopt this theory we should have to put the date for the “knocking about” of the MS. even later than that assigned by Mr. Dowse, for though Overbury’s murder was discovered in 1615, Lady Somerset, as she then was, was not committed to the Tower till April, 1616, and it is not probable if turner stands for Anne Turner, that that name would be written till after the trial had brought it prominently before the public.