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
APPLEGATE--Truly, I cannot say I heard him mention any thing at
all neither; but I did hear my lord Mohun say, when he could
not prevail, in St. Martin's-lane, with captain Coote to go
home, that if they did go he would go and see it.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--If they did go; who did he mean by they?
APPLEGATE--My lord Warwick and captain Coote that were in the
other chairs; there was nobody else to speak to.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Was there any talk of fighting or
quarrelling?
APPLEGATE--No, indeed, I do not know of any difference there
was between them.
LORD HIGH STEWARD--My lord Warwick, will your lordship ask this
witness any questions?
EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire he may be asked, Whether I
did not endeavour to put off the going into Leicester-fields,
and to have all things let alone till to-morrow.
APPLEGATE--My lord, I cannot say any thing of that; but I did
hear my lord Mohun beg heartily of captain Coote to go home,
and let the business alone till another time; and indeed I
think, I never heard a man beg more heartily for an alms at a
door, than he did, that they might not go into the fields then;
but I cannot say that I heard any thing that my lord of Warwick
said about it.
LORD HIGH STEWARD--Will your lordship ask him any other
questions?
EARL OF WARWICK--No, my lord.
Catro, who was the second chairman who carried Lord Mohun's chair,
corroborated Applegate's evidence. Palmer, Jackson, and Edwards were
three chairmen who had helped to carry French, James, and Dockwra to
Leicester Fields; but they had nothing to add to the evidence already
given.
_Pomfret_ was a servant at the Bagnio in Long Acre. In answer to the
Attorney-General he said:--
My lord, on Sunday the 30th of October last, between two and
three in the morning, there came to my master's door the earl
of Warwick, and knocked at the door, and there was capt. French
with him; and when they were let in, my lord of Warwick told me
that capt. French was wounded, and he himself had a wound, and
he desired that my master might be called up for to dress the
wounds; especially, because capt. French was very much wounded;
which accordingly was done in about a quarter of an hour after
they were brought in.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Did he desire to be concealed when he was
come in?
LORD HIGH STEWARD--Of whom do you speak, Mr. Attorney?
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--My lord of Warwick.
POMFRET--He did desire, that if any body asked for him, it
should be said he was not there.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray in what condition did my lord of Warwick
seem to be in at that time?
POMFRET--He seemed to be very much concerned at that time, and
his right hand, in which he had his sword, and which was drawn,
was very much bloody.
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