State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
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State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
Trials -- Great Britain
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 pass 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 pass
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?
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