Part 6 (1/2)

LORD HIGH STEWARD--My lord, has your lords.h.i.+p any questions to ask this witness? For now is your time, the king's counsel having done examining him.

EARL OF WARWICK--I desire to ask him, whether I did not bid the chairmen go home?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--If your lords.h.i.+p please to propose your question to me, I will require an answer to it from the witness, and it will be the better heard by my lords.

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire to know of this man, whether, when I went away in the chair from his master's house I did not bid the chairmen go home?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--Witness, you hear my lord's question, what say you to it?

CAWTHORNE--Yes; my lord of Warwick did bid the chairmen go home.

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I have another question to ask him.

Whether he knows of any quarrel there was between me and Mr.

Coote at that time, or any other time; because we both used to frequent that house?

CAWTHORNE--No, my lords, I never heard any angry words between my lord Warwick and Mr. Coote in my life.

[Then the lords towards the upper end of the House complaining that they did not hear his Grace, the Lord High Steward was pleased to repeat the question thus:]

LORD HIGH STEWARD--When my lord of Warwick bid the chairmen go home, or at any other time, did you observe that there had been any quarrel between his lords.h.i.+p and Mr. Coote?

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire he may be asked, since we both used that house, Whether that night, when I went away, or before or after, I had any quarrel with Mr. Coote?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--The question my lord desires you, that are the witness, to answer, is, Whether you did hear any quarrelling or angry words to pa.s.s between my lord Warwick and Mr. Coote that night before or after they came down, or when they went away, or at any other time?

CAWTHORNE--No, my lord, I never heard any angry words pa.s.s between them then, nor ever at any time before in all my life, but I always looked upon them to be very good friends.

EARL OF WARWICK--I desire he may be asked, Whether Mr. Coote did not come to that house in my company, and whether he did not frequently come to that house?

CAWTHORNE--Yes; they used to be there every day almost, and they came that night together in company.

EARL OF WARWICK--I desire he may be asked, whether I have not been frequently in his company there?

CAWTHORNE--Yes; I say very frequently, every day almost, sometimes twice a-day.

LORD HIGH STEWARD--Would your lords.h.i.+p ask him any other question?

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire he may be asked this question, whether he knows of any particular kindness between Mr. Coote and me?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--Do you know of any particular kindness between my lord Warwick and Mr. Coote, the gentleman that was killed?

CAWTHORNE--Yes, my lord, there was always a great kindness between them, as I observed: it ever was so, and I never heard angry words pa.s.s between them, but they were very good friends constantly; I waited upon them generally when they were at my master's house, which was every day almost.

EARL OF WARWICK--I desire to know of this witness, whether he does not remember, or can name, some particular kindnesses that pa.s.sed between Mr. Coote and me?

LORD HIGH STEWARD--Can you specify any particular instances of kindness that pa.s.sed between my lord Warwick and Mr. Coote?

CAWTHORNE--Yes; my lord of Warwick used generally to pay the reckoning for Mr. Coote, and he did so at this time.

EARL OF WARWICK--My lord, I desire he may be asked, between whom he apprehended the quarrel to be at this time?