Subsequently three men, Sir Thomas Walsingham, Sir James Croft, and Samuel Lennard, acting under Cecil's instructions, went to the house and sealed up trunks and chests of evidences and valuables. Croft was asked to manage Brian Annesley's rents. They noted that his daughters were in "emulation", or quarrelling. They wrote a joint letter to Cecil from Scadbury, the home of Walsingham and his wife Audrey Walsingham, who had played a role in the entertainment at Harefield.HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 15 (1930), pp. 265-6.
