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 WARWICK--My lord, I desire he may be asked, Whether I
did not bid him stop at St. Martin's-lane end, and do all that
I could to hinder Mr. Coote from going any further, but to go
home?
BROWNE--The earl of Warwick, and my lord Mohun, as they turned
up the lane, asked Mr. Coote, whither he was going? And when he
said to Leicester-fields, they desired him to let it alone till
to-morrow; and my lord Mohun said he should go home with him;
but the other bid us go on, and said he would not go to his
lodgings, but that they would make an end of it that night;
still they called to him again, Dear Coote, let us speak a word
with you; and as the chairs came to the back-door of the
Cross-keys tavern, there they stood all of a breast, and they
both of them spoke to him, and stood a pretty while there, and
in the mean time three chairs passed by on the other side; he
commanded us to take up, and carry him away to Leicester-fields
immediately, and overtake the other chairs, or he would run one
of us into the body.
LORD HIGH STEWARD--Would your lordship ask him any more
questions?
EARL OF WARWICK--No, my lord.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--My lord, I observe, he says they discoursed
some time together while they stopped in St. Martin's-lane; I
desire that he may be asked, Whether he can tell what that
discourse was?
BROWNE--I could not well hear, they whispered together, but I
could hear my lord Mohun, and my lord of Warwick, desire capt.
Coote to go home, and let the business alone till another time.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--I desire he may explain himself, what that
business was that they would have put off till to-morrow.
BROWNE--I know not what it was; I heard of no anger betwixt
them, but they were as good friends, for anything I know to the
contrary, as ever they were in their lives or as ever I see any
men.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Our next witness is William Crippes. [Who was
sworn.]
LORD HIGH STEWARD--What do you ask this man, Mr. Attorney?
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray, will you give my lords here an account
who you carried to Leicester-fields, the 29th or 30th of
October, and what happened in your knowledge at that time?
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