The act of parliament later described the official account of events: "on the Eighteenth day of February, 1531, one Richard Roose, of Rochester, Cook, also called Richard Cooke, did cast poison into a vessel, full of yeast or baum, standing in the kitchen of the Bishop of Rochester‘s Palace, at Lambeth March, by means of which two persons who happened to eat of the pottage made with such yeast died".