 However, clearly Siston was no longer his property to utilise in such way as security, and his scheme ultimately failed.The sequence of events of Richard Denys's fraudulent scheme are well recorded, in the handwriting of no less a legal expert that Sir Robert Cecil, who in 1607 had been offered the opportunity to purchase Siston by Robert Wyke, then in the Wood Street Compter debtors' prison.He examined in great detail the facts of the devolution of title from Sir Maurice Denys and recorded his findings in his papers, which survive in the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House.