State Trials Part 6

LORD HIGH STEWARD--My lord, has your lordship any questions to ask this witness? For now is your time, the king's counsel having done examining him.

EARL OF WARWICK--I desire to ask him, whether I did not bid the chairmen go home?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--If your lordship please to propose your question to me, I will require an answer to it from the witness, and it will be the better heard by my lords.

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire to know of this man, whether, when I went away in the chair from his master's house I did not bid the chairmen go home?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--Witness, you hear my lord's question, what say you to it?

CAWTHORNE--Yes; my lord of Warwick did bid the chairmen go home.

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I have another question to ask him.

Whether he knows of any quarrel there was between me and Mr.

Coote at that time, or any other time; because we both used to frequent that house?

CAWTHORNE--No, my lords, I never heard any angry words between my lord Warwick and Mr. Coote in my life.

[Then the lords towards the upper end of the House complaining that they did not hear his Grace, the Lord High Steward was pleased to repeat the question thus:]

LORD HIGH STEWARD--When my lord of Warwick bid the chairmen go home, or at any other time, did you observe that there had been any quarrel between his lordship and Mr. Coote?

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire he may be asked, since we both used that house, Whether that night, when I went away, or before or after, I had any quarrel with Mr. Coote?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--The question my lord desires you, that are the witness, to answer, is, Whether you did hear any quarrelling or angry words to pa.s.s between my lord Warwick and Mr. Coote that night before or after they came down, or when they went away, or at any other time?

CAWTHORNE--No, my lord, I never heard any angry words pa.s.s between them then, nor ever at any time before in all my life, but I always looked upon them to be very good friends.

EARL OF WARWICK--I desire he may be asked, Whether Mr. Coote did not come to that house in my company, and whether he did not frequently come to that house?

CAWTHORNE--Yes; they used to be there every day almost, and they came that night together in company.

EARL OF WARWICK--I desire he may be asked, whether I have not been frequently in his company there?

CAWTHORNE--Yes; I say very frequently, every day almost, sometimes twice a-day.

LORD HIGH STEWARD--Would your lordship ask him any other question?

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire he may be asked this question, whether he knows of any particular kindness between Mr. Coote and me?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--Do you know of any particular kindness between my lord Warwick and Mr. Coote, the gentleman that was killed?

CAWTHORNE--Yes, my lord, there was always a great kindness between them, as I observed: it ever was so, and I never heard angry words pa.s.s between them, but they were very good friends constantly; I waited upon them generally when they were at my master's house, which was every day almost.

EARL OF WARWICK--I desire to know of this witness, whether he does not remember, or can name, some particular kindnesses that pa.s.sed between Mr. Coote and me?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--Can you specify any particular instances of kindness that pa.s.sed between my lord Warwick and Mr. Coote?

CAWTHORNE--Yes; my lord of Warwick used generally to pay the reckoning for Mr. Coote, and he did so at this time.

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire he may be asked, between whom he apprehended the quarrel to be at this time?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--You say, friend, there were swords drawn and a quarrelling at the bar; can you tell between whom the quarrel was?

CAWTHORNE--My lord Warwick, my lord Mohun, and capt. Coote, were all on one side, and the other three were on the other side.

EARL OF WARWICK--Who were the two persons that it was apprehended the quarrel was between? I desire he may be asked.

LORD HIGH STEWARD--You say, there were three on the one side, and three on the other; pray, between whom did you apprehend the quarrel to be?

CAWTHORNE--I believe the quarrel was between Mr. Coote and Mr.

French.

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire to know of this witness, what words he heard Mr. Coote say after he and Mr. French returned into the house and came out of the chairs.

LORD HIGH STEWARD--What do you say to the question my lord proposes?

CAWTHORNE--I heard Mr. Coote say, he would laugh when he pleased, and he would frown when he pleased, G.o.d d.a.m.n him.

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire to know, who he thinks those words were addressed to?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--To whom did Mr. Coote speak these words?

CAWTHORNE--Whether he spoke them particularly to Mr. French or to the other two gentlemen who were on the other side of the bar, I cannot directly tell.

EARL OF WARWICK--I desire to know of him, whether Mr. Coote was not one of the three that was on the outside of the bar?

CAWTHORNE--Yes, my lord of Warwick, my lord Mohun, and capt.

Coote, were of the outside of the bar.

EARL OF WARWICK--Was capt. Coote with me in the beginning of the night at that house?

CAWTHORNE--Yes, he came at the beginning of the night with my lord of Warwick.

EARL OF PETERBOROUGH--My lords, I desire to ask this witness one question.

LORD HIGH STEWARD--I think it is proper, my lords, in point of method, to let both sides have done before any questions be asked by any of my n.o.ble lords.

EARL OF PETERBOROUGH--I did apprehend my lord of Warwick had done.

LORD HIGH STEWARD--No, my lord, not as yet; pray, my lord of Warwick, what other questions has your lordship to ask of this witness?

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire he may be asked particularly this question, whether he perceived any quarrel particularly between me and capt. Coote when we went out of the house?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--You hear the question, did you perceive any quarrel between my lord Warwick and Mr. Coote before they went out of the house?

CAWTHORNE--No, I did not; nor ever saw any quarrel between them in my life.

EARL OF WARWICK--I desire to know who paid the reckoning that night?