LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--My lord, what you have from my lady is no kind of evidence at all. LORD ANGLESEY--I don't know what my lord is, I am acquainted with none of the evidence, nor what hath been done; But my lady Chaworth came to me, and acquainted me there was some suspicion---- JEFFREYS--I don't think it fit for me to interrupt a person of your honour, my lord, but your lordship knows in what place we stand here: What you can say of anything you heard of my lord Howard, we are willing to hear, but the other is not evidence. As the court will not let us offer hearsays, so neither must we that are for the king permit it. LORD ANGLESEY--I have told you what happened in my hearing. _Mr. Howard_ was then called, and after describing steps he took to prevail on Lord Howard to come over to the King's side, when 'I sometimes found my lord very forward and sometimes softened him'; and continuing-- LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Pray apply yourself to the matter you are called for. MR. HOWARD--This it may be is to the matter, when you have heard me: for I think I know where I am, and what I am to say. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--We must desire you not to go on thus. MR. HOWARD--I must satisfy the world, as well as I can, as to myself, and my family, and pray do not interrupt me. After this, my lord, there never passed a day for almost---- LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Pray speak to this matter. HOWARD--Sir, I am coming to it. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Pray, Sir, be directed by the Court. HOWARD--Then now, sir, I will come to the thing. Upon this ground I had of my lord's kindness, I applied myself to my lord in this present issue, on the breaking out of this Plot. My lord, I thought certainly, as near as I could discern him (for he took it upon his honour, his faith, and as much as if he had taken an oath before a magistrate), that he knew nothing of any man concerned in this business, and particularly of my lord Russell, whom he vindicated with all the honour in the world. My lord, it is true, was afraid of his own person, and as a friend and a relation I concealed him in my own house, and I did not think it was for such a conspiracy, but I thought he was unwilling to go to the Tower for nothing again;[23] so that if my lord has the same soul on Monday, that he had on Sunday, this cannot be true, that he swears against my lord Russell. LORD RUSSELL--Call Dr. Burnet.[24] LORD RUSSELL--Pray, Dr. Burnet, did you hear anything from my lord Howard, since the Plot was discovered, concerning me? DR. BURNET--My lord Howard was with me the night after the Plot broke out, and he did then, as he had done before, with hands and eyes lifted up to heaven, say he knew nothing of any Plot, nor believed any; and treated it with scorn and contempt.