John Stacey, a Fellow who studied astronomy, is accused of trying to kill Lord Beauchamp, by melting a lead image. Under torture he confesses that, along with another Fellow, Thomas Blake, and a local landowner, Thomas Burdet, he had conspired against King Edward IV. The three are charged with 'imagining' the death of the King and the Prince of Wales by sorcery, and circulating treasonous 'bills, rhymes, and ballads'. Blake is pardoned, but despite protesting their innocence Stacey and Burdet are hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in May.