According to the legend, Lady Katherine Fanshaw (née Ferrers) (4 May 1634 – c. 13 June 1660) became involved in highway robbery. She became known as the “wicked Lady Ferrers’, but whether she truly was wicked is subject to conjecture. She died as a result of gunshot wounds sustained in one of her attempts at robbery. The story holds that she now haunts Nomansland common and the ancestral family home at Markyate. Children growing up in this area the have always sung a rhyme "In the Cell there be a well, by the well there be a tree, under the tree the treasure be".