What does Peter plan to do when he discovers that Sir Philip has set a watch or guard at all roads leading out of Penrith?

Peter plans to stay hidden in the box the traveling players used for a coffin and travel out of town with them to Kendal. The players are leaving that very evening.

So the actors were going straight on to Kendal that very evening.'^ If only I could remain hidden they would carry me right through Sir Philip's cordon. . . . Carhsle would have been better, perhaps, but Kendal would do well enough. If I wasn't discovered . . .