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--There was one in the Field besides, and no more that I
could see; they all went away but us two.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--What distance of time was there between their
setting down in Leicester-fields, and their calling the chairs
again?
CRIPPES--Not a quarter of an hour.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--What became of the three chairs that passed
by you in St. Martin's-lane?
CRIPPES--They got before us; but what became of them afterwards
I cannot tell.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Did they come from the same place, the tavern
in the Strand that you were at?
CRIPPES--Yes, I believe they did, my lord; for capt Coote bid
us follow them, and threatened us if we did not make greater
haste.
ATTORNEY--GENERAL--Do you know my lord of Warwick?
CRIPPES--Yes, he had whitish cloaths on; and none but he had
such clothes on as those were.
LORD HIGH STEWARD--Will your lordship ask this witness any
questions?
EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire he may be asked, Whether I
did not bid him stop? and, whether I did not say, they should
not go to quarrel that night?
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--My lord, I desire to know of him, directly
and downright, Whether my lord of Warwick was not one of them
that held him when he was within the rails of the fields?
CRIPPES--No, he was not; he was neither of them; for the one of
them was too big for him, and the other was too little for my
lord Mohun.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Now we call the chairman that carried the
earl of Warwick into Leicester-fields, James Crattle.
(He was sworn.)
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Will you tell my lords what you know of any
person that you carried the 29th or 30th of October last, from
the Greyhound tavern in the Strand, and who it was, and whither
you carried him?
CRATTLE--I was going along Charing-cross, between one and two
in the morning, the 30th of October, last, and I heard a chair
called for at Locket's at the Dog tavern; and thither I and my
partner went, and we took up the gentleman, and carried him to
Leicester-fields.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Who was that gentleman?
CRATTLE--It was my lord of Warwick.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--What time of night do you say it was?
CRATTLE--It was about one or two in the morning.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--What day of the week was it?
CRATTLE--It was Saturday night and Sunday morning.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Whither did you carry him?
CRATTLE--Into Green-street, towards the lower end of
Leicester-square.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--What chairs were there more there?
CRATTLE--There was one that captain Coote was in, and another
that my lord Mohun was in, and we went away all together.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Were there no other chairs?
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