 However, before the transaction could be completed, the abbot died.Undeterred, Gilbert turned to a monk in the abbey, requesting him to “counterfeit” the abbot's handwriting to draw up a deed and to forge the signatures of all the members of the convent.This ruse succeeded, but, fearing the monk would reveal this deceit, he solicited a peasant “to stik him.” That done, he began to fear that the peasant would reveal the crime and arranged with his uncle, Hugh of Bargany, to accuse the peasant of theft and have him hanged.