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
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--What became of the rest of the company?
WITNESS--They went away; I do not know what became of them, nor
whither they went; some of them went in and out of one room
into another several times, two or three times, and came out
again.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--My lord, we have done with the witness.
LORD HIGH STEWARD--My lord Warwick, will you ask him any
questions?
EARL OF WARWICK--No, my lord.
_Mr. Salmon_, the surgeon who, by the coroner's orders, examined Coote's
wounds, was called. There were two wounds: one on the left breast, near
the collar-bone, running down four or five inches. He could not guess
what sort of a sword made it; the wound was about half an inch broad.
There was another wound under the last rib on the left side, an inch
broad, six inches deep. They were both mortal. In answer to Lord
Warwick, he said that neither could be given by a sword run up to the
hilt. He could not say that they must have been given by the same
weapon: but they might have been.
_Stephen Turner_, Coote's servant, identified his master's sword; he
believed he fenced with his right hand, but had never seen him fence at
all.
EARL OF WARWICK--I desire he may be asked, whether he has not
observed a particular kindness and friendship between his
master and me?
TURNER--Yes, my lord; I have several times waited upon my
master, when my lord and he was together, and they were always
very civil and kind one to another; and I never heard one word
of any unkindness between them.
EARL OF WARWICK--Whether he knows of any quarrel that was
between us?
TURNER--No, I never did.
EARL OF WARWICK--Whether he did not use to lie at my lodgings
sometimes?
LORD HIGH STEWARD--You hear my lord's question: what say you?
Did your master use to lie at my lord of Warwick's lodgings at
any time?
TURNER--Yes; very often.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray call Pomfret again, and let him see the
sword.
[Then he came in, and two swords were shewn him.]
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--I desire he may acquaint your lordships what
he knows of those two swords.
POMFRET--These two swords were brought in by some of the
company that came to my master's house; and when they were
shewn to captain French in the morning he owned this to be his,
and the other to be Mr. Coote's; and he desired that notice
might be taken, that his sword was dirty but not bloody; and
there was some blood upon the other.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Who brought in Mr. Coote's sword?
POMFRET--Indeed I cannot tell.
_White_, the coroner, was called, and said that he had asked Salmon
whether the two wounds on Coote's body were given by the same weapon,
and he said he could not say.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL--We have done with our evidence, until we hear
what my lord of Warwick says to it.
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