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
CRIPPES--Captain Coote was the first man that went into the
chair when we came to the Greyhound tavern; afterwards he came
out again, and when we took him up the second time, he was the
first man that set out; and he bid us carry him to
Leicester-fields; and when we came to the corner of St.
Martin's-lane, we turned up that way; and my lord of Warwick,
and my lord Mohun, called to us, being in chairs behind, to
know whither we were going, and desired to speak with captain
Coote; and he said he was going to Leicester-fields; and when
they asked, what to do? He said, to end the business: they
desired him to put it off till to-morrow; and while they were
discoursing about it in St. Martin's-lane, there passed by
other three chairs, which, when captain Coote saw, he bid us
take up and overtake them, and go faster, or he would run one
of us into the body: so we went on, and at the lower end of
Leicester-fields we set him down; and the other two gentlemen,
my lord Warwick and my lord Mohun, were there set down, and
went lovingly together, for any thing that I saw, up the
pavement of the square, towards the upper end; and in a little
time we heard a noise of calling for chairs towards the upper
end, and when we came there with the chair, we were bid to lift
over the chair within the rails; and when we said it was hard
to be done, they insisted upon it, and we did come in; and when
we came there we saw two gentlemen holding up captain Coote,
and would have had us taken him into the chair; we saw there
was a great deal of blood, but I never heard how it came, and
they would have had us carried him to a French surgeon's, and
proffered any money.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--My lord, I desire to know, who they were that
desired him to be carried to the surgeon?
LORD HIGH STEWARD--You hear the question, what say you?
CRIPPES--I cannot tell, my lord; one of them had something of
lace upon him, but it was so dark that I could hardly see my
hand, and therefore I cannot tell who they were; and when there
was an objection made, that the chairs would be spoiled, they
said we need not question our chair, they would give us £100
security to answer any damages, if we would but carry him; so
we endeavoured to put him into the chair, but could not; and
so we called out to the watch, to have had some help; but they
said it was none of their ward, and so they would not come to
us; so the gentlemen went away, and we left them, and went and
called a surgeon, who, when he came, said, he was a dead man,
and we were secured till the next day.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray, my lord, I desire he may be asked, Were
there not other chairs in that place at the time?
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