The Eure family were traditional and Catholic recusant landowners in the area and Hoby was a relative newcomer and Puritan.
[1] He was employed at the Scottish border by Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby.
Cecil was especially disappointed by Eure's denial which multiplied suspicions, although he thought the matter had beginnings only in some "very venial" cause.
[4] William Eure was imprisoned in the Tower of London for this visit, suspected of treasonous dealings.
Queen Elizabeth's statement of 11 May 1601 stressed that Eure's was his denial to superior officers at Berwick that he had met the Scottish king.