Part 13 (1/2)

WITNESS--No, indeed, I cannot tell who went with my lord Warwick; there came in a gentleman in black, whom I knew to be my lord of Warwick's steward, and he came and spoke some words to my lord of Warwick, about a quarter of an hour after they came in, and then they went away, for after that I did not hear any further discourse.

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 friends.h.i.+p 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 lords.h.i.+ps 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 b.l.o.o.d.y; 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.

LORD HIGH STEWARD--My lord of Warwick, will you ask this witness any questions?