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In May 1573, in a letter to Lord Burghley, two of Oxford's former employees accused three of Oxford's friends of attacking them on " the highway from Gravesend to Rochester.

" In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff and three roguish friends of Prince Hal also waylay unwary travellers on the highway from Gravesend to Rochester, a scene also present in The Famous Victories of Henry the Fift.

Measure for Measure differs from its sources in that Claudio's crime was changed from murder to seduction of a maiden — the same crime that sent Oxford to the Tower of London.