LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Ay, is not that a plain question? DUNNE--I am quite cluttered out of my senses; I do not know that I say (A candle being still held nearer his nose). LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--But to tell the truth would rob thee of none of thy senses, if ever thou hadst any; but it should seem that neither thou, nor thy mistress the prisoner had any, for she knew nothing of it neither, though she had sent for them thither. Colonel Penruddock continuing, said he had some difficulty in getting admittance to Lady Lisle's house; he did not see her till after he had brought out Hicks and Dunne; she denied that anybody else was there, but he searched and found Nelthorp. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--But she denied it [Nelthorp's being there] first it seems? LISLE--My lord, I hope I shall not be condemned without being heard. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--No, God forbid, Mrs. Lisle. That was a sort of practice in your husband's time, you know very well what I mean; but God be thanked it is not so now; the king's courts of law never condemn without hearing. _Downing_ being called and sworn, deposed to finding Dunne and Hicks in the Malt-house, the former in a little hole 'where he had taken some stuff or other to cover him.' _Mrs. Carpenter_, the bailiff's wife, spoke to serving the men who came on Tuesday with supper in the chamber where they lay, and to Mrs. Lisle's presence there. _Carpenter_ spoke to Dunne's first arrival, when he asked for entertainment for Hicks and another whom he did not know. After the Carpenters had finished it appeared that Dunne had given way. MR. RUMSEY--Now, my lord, Dunne says he will tell all, whether it makes for him or against him. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Let him but tell the truth, and I shall be satisfied. DUNNE--Sure my lord, I never entertained these men a night in my house in my life; but this Hicks sent that man to me to go to my lady Lisle's, to know whether she would please to entertain him; and when I came my lady asked me whether he had been in the army or no? I told her I could not tell, I did not know that he was. She then asked me if he had nobody else with him? I told her I believed there was. This is the very truth of it, my lord. I asked her might the men be entertained? She said they might. So when we came to my lady Lisle's on the Tuesday night, somebody took the two horses, I cannot tell who if I were to die; the two went in; and after I had set up my horse, I went in along with Carpenter up into the chamber to my lady, and to this Hicks and Nelthorp; and when I came there, I heard my lady bid them welcome to her house; and Mr. Carpenter or the maid, I cannot tell which, brought in the supper, and set it on the table. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--And didst thou eat or drink with them in the room or not?