LORD HOWARD--My lord, may I speak for myself? JEFFREYS--No, no, my lord, we don't call you. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Will you please to have any other witnesses called? LORD RUSSELL--There are some persons of quality that I have been very well acquainted and conversed with. I desire to know of them, if there was anything in my former carriage to make them think me like to be guilty of this? My lord Cavendish. LORD CAVENDISH--I had the honour to be acquainted with my lord Russell a long time. I always thought him a man of great honour, and too prudent and wary a man to be concerned in so vile and desperate a design as this, and from which he would receive so little advantage; I can say nothing more, but that two or three days since the discovery of this plot upon discourse about Col. Rumsey my lord Russell did express something, as if he had a very ill opinion of the man, and therefore it is not likely he would entrust him with such a secret. LORD RUSSELL--Dr. Tillotson.[25] LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--What questions would you ask him, my lord? LORD RUSSELL--He and I happened to be very conversant. To know whether he did ever find anything tending to this in my discourse. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--My lord calls you as to his life, and conversation and reputation. DR. TILLOTSON--My lord, I have been many years last past acquainted with my lord Russell, I always judged him a person of great virtue and integrity, and by all the conversation and discourse I ever had with him, I always took him to be a person very far from any such wicked design he stands charged with. LORD RUSSELL--Dr. Burnet, if you please to give some account of my conversation. DR. BURNET--My lord, I have had the honour to be known to my lord Russell several years, and he hath declared himself with much confidence to me, and he always upon all occasions expressed himself against all risings; and when he spoke of some people would provoke to it, he expressed himself so determined against that matter that I think no man could do more. _Dr. Thomas Cox_ was then called and said that having seen a great deal of Lord Russell during the six weeks 'before this plot came out,' he had always found him against all kind of risings; he expressed distrust of Rumsey. He said, for my lord Howard, he was a man of excellent parts, of luxuriant parts, but he had the luck not to be much trusted by any party. The _Duke of Somerset_ spoke shortly as to Lord Russell's honour, loyalty, and justice. FOREMAN OF THE JURY--The gentlemen of the jury desire to ask my lord Howard something upon the point my lord Anglesey testified, and to know what answer he makes to lord Anglesey.