[3] With John Allenson he signed articles against Peter Baro, and petitioned for a free college election in 1595.
[4] Assheton was Thomas Gataker's tutor at St John's, and with Henry Alvey was an important influence on him.
[9] Essex made a written confession under the guidance of Assheton, whose motivations were questioned by contemporaries who thought him a "hireling" (a view contradicted later by James Spedding and subsequent scholars).
On the morning of his execution (25 February) another abstract of a confession was signed by Assheton, William Barlow, and Thomas Montford (a royal chaplain reporting to the Queen).
[12][13][14] Essex presented Assheton with his "pocket dial" (compass plus nocturnal); it is now in the British Museum.