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
CAWTHORNE--When my lord Warwick, my lord Mohun, and capt.
Coote, were gone, I heard Mr. Dockwra say to Mr. French and Mr.
James, We don't care a farthing for them, we will fight them at
any time.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--I desire to know, whether this witness
testified any thing of this matter when he was examined before
the coroner?
CAWTHORNE--No; I forgot those words when I was examined before
the coroner.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--How soon after your examination did you
recollect yourself as to what you now speak?
CAWTHORNE--The next day after.
He had not mentioned the words he now said were spoken by Dockwra either
at the inquest or at the trial at the Old Bailey.
_Thomas Browne was sworn._
LORD HIGH STEWARD--What question do you ask this witness, Mr.
Attorney?
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--That he would acquaint your lordships,
whether he carried Mr. Richard Coote, the person that was
slain, upon the 29th or 30th of October, from the Greyhound
tavern in the Strand, and to what place he carried him?
LORD HIGH STEWARD--You hear the question; pray speak so loud
that my lords may all hear what you say.
BROWNE--My Lords, I was between the hours of one and two in the
morning, on Sunday the 30th of October last, with my fellows
and our chair, at the Buffler's Head Tavern at Charing-cross,
and I heard some people at Locket's, at the Greyhound in the
Strand, calling coach coach, a pretty while; but there were no
coaches in the street, nor that came to them; when they could
not get coaches then they called out for chairs; and we coming
to the door with our chair, there were four other chairs there,
and six gentlemen stood in the passage; and then it was said,
there was not chairs enough, and there wanted one more, and
they stood discoursing; and the first man came into my chair,
who was capt. Coote, and my lord of Warwick he got into
another; When the door of the chair was shut up, we asked
whither we should go; but my lord Mohun came and bid open the
chair again; and we did so, and he returned into the house, and
there was some discourse between them standing at the bar in
the entry. Mr. Coote came out again and came into my chair, and
my lord Mohun and my lord of Warwick went into two others; Mr.
Coote bid me carry him into Leicester fields, and to make all
the haste I could; my lord of Warwick and my lord Mohun being
in the next chairs, asked him, Whither are you a-going, and
called out twice, and he said, To Leicester fields; pray do
not, says my lord of Warwick, but come along with us, and let
it alone till to-morrow; but he bid us go on; and as we were
turning up St. Martin's Lane, by the Cross Keys tavern, my lord
Mohun, and my lord Warwick called out to us to stop, and their
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