State Trials Part 9

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 Sat.u.r.day 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?

CRATTLE--I did not know who went in the other chairs, but there were three other chairs that pa.s.sed by us at St Martin's-lane, and we followed after them to Leicester-fields.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray what became of you after you had set down your fare?

CRATTLE--We were discharged and paid; the other three went up towards my lord of Leicester's; but we were coming away, and in a little time we heard the noise of calling chairs! chairs!

again, and there were two chairs did come up, Thomas Browne's and ours; my lord of Warwick called our chair, and we took him into it, and he bid us carry him to the Bagnio in Long-acre; and when we came there we knocked at the door, and his hand was b.l.o.o.d.y, and he asked us if we had any handkerchief to bind up his hand.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Was there any other chairs at the door of the Bagnio, at the same time when you came there?

CRATTLE--Yes, there was another chair there at the door at the same time, and we set down both together.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray whence came that chair?

CRATTLE--Indeed, I do not know.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Who were the chairmen that carried that chair?

CRATTLE--Indeed, my lord Mohun and my lord Warwick were the only persons that I knew of all the company.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--What sort of gentleman was the other, that went out of the other chair into the house?

CRATTLE--He was a pretty tall man; when he was in we went away; I only can say, I saw my lord of Warwick go into the house.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Did you take any notice of any sword that my lord of Warwick had in his hand at that time?

CRATTLE--No; I cannot say I did take any notice of any sword, only that there was a handkerchief desired.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray, did you hear no noise at all in the field, till you heard chairs called for again?

CRATTLE--No; I cannot say I heard any noise in the field.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Did you apprehend there was any fighting?

CRATTLE--No, I knew nothing at all of it; but upon the calling of chairs again, and my lord Warwick coming along, we took him in, and he bid us go to the Bagnio, and thither we went.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--My lord, we have done with this witness.

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

EARL OF WARWICK--No, my lord.

_Gibson_, the other chairman who carried the Earl of Warwick, was then called, and gave substantially the same evidence as the last witness.

_Applegate_ carried Lord Mohun to Leicester Fields, and corroborated the account of the journey thither given by the other witnesses.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--What then happened afterwards, can you tell?

APPLEGATE--I cannot tell whether I had lighted my pipe, or was just lighting it, when I heard chairs called again; upon which we run up with our chairs towards the upper end of the fields, and there I did see my lord of Warwick within the rails, who bid us put over our chair into the fields; but we told him, if we did, we could not get it over again; and so we went with our chair to the corner of the fields; and when we came there, there came out captain French, who bid us open our chairs, and let him in, for he did believe he was a dead man; and upon that we did take him in, and he bid us carry him with all the speed we could to the Bagnio in Long-acre, and my lord of Warwick got into another chair behind; so we went to Long-acre; and when we came to the door of the Bagnio and captain French came out of the chair, he was so weak that he fell down upon his knees; and when he came out, I asked who should pay me, and desired to be discharged; and the earl of Warwick said, d.a.m.n ye, call for your money to-morrow; so they both went in at the Bagnio door together.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray, who called for the chair first, captain French, or my lord of Warwick, in the fields?

APPLEGATE--I cannot tell; but when I brought up my chair, I first saw my lord of Warwick, and he would have had me lifted the chair over the rails, and I told him we could not get it over again, and so went up to the upper end of the fields.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--If you first spoke with my lord of Warwick, why did you not carry my lord of Warwick?

APPLEGATE--Indeed I cannot tell; but I suppose it was because he did not come so soon out of the fields as captain French, or did not come the same way.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray, do you remember anything that happened just at their carrying capt. French away?

APPLEGATE--Before he went into the chair, he stopped and would have pulled off his cloaths, but we would not let him.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Did you see any sword capt. French had?

APPLEGATE--I did see no sword that I can say directly was a sword; but capt. French had something in his hand, but what it was I cannot tell.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--What was it that he said to you, when he first went into the chair?

APPLEGATE--He desired to be carried to the Bagnio; for he said he believed he was a dead man.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray friend, recollect yourself, if you heard him say any thing at all when he first went into the chair at the Greyhound tavern?

APPLEGATE--I did not hear him mention any thing at all.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Pray what did you hear my lord of Warwick say at that time?

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?