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
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?
CAWTHORNE--The reckoning was called for before I came in to
take it; and though I think my lord of Warwick paid for Mr.
Coote, yet I cannot so directly tell, because it was collected
before I came into the room to receive it.
LORD HIGH STEWARD--My lord, have you any thing more to ask this
witness?
EARL OF WARWICK--No, my lord, at present, that I think of.
LORD HIGH STEWARD--My lord Peterborough, your lordship desired
to ask a question, will you please to propose it now?
The Earl of Peterborough reminded the witness that he had said that
there were two sides, and that Coote and Lord Warwick were on the same
side. He asked what Cawthorne meant by this, and he explained that all
six had their swords drawn; that Mohun, Warwick, and Coote were on one
side of the bar, and the three captains, James, French, and Dockwra on
the other: the cause of quarrel must have occurred above stairs, but he
heard nothing pass between them.
LORD HIGH STEWARD--But you have not given a satisfactory answer
to that question which the noble lord, my lord Peterborough,
asked you, What reason you had to apprehend that the noble lord
the prisoner at the bar, and capt. Coote were of a side?
CAWTHORNE--My lord Mohun came to the chairside, when capt.
Coote and capt. French were got into the two first chairs, and
told capt. Coote, that there should be no quarrel that night
but that they three, my lord Warwick, my lord Mohun, and he,
should go home together; and I took them three to be of a side,
because they were on the outside of the bar together; and when
they all went away, their three chairs went away first, all
three together.
LORD HIGH STEWARD--Is that all the reason you can give why you
say, they were three and three of a side?
CAWTHORNE--Yes, my lord, I did apprehend it so.
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