"Russell. 'You would regard that, I suppose, as a serious charge?'
"Pigott. 'Yes.'
"Russell. 'Did you believe that charge to be true or false?'
"Pigott. 'I believed that charge to be true.'
"Russell. 'You believed that to be true?'
"Pigott. 'I do.'
"Russell. 'Now I will read this passage [from Pigott's letter to the archbishop], "I need hardly add that, did I consider the parties really guilty of the things charged against them, I should not dream of suggesting that your Grace should take part in an effort to shield them; I only wish to impress on your Grace that the evidence is apparently convincing, and would probably be sufficient to secure conviction if submitted to an English jury." What do you say to that, Mr. Pigott?'
"Pigott (bewildered). 'I say nothing, except that I am sure I could not have had the letters in my mind when I said that, because I do not think the letters conveyed a sufficiently serious charge to cause me to write in that way.'
"Russell. 'But you know that was the only part of the charge, so far as you have yet told us, that you had anything to do in getting up?'
"Pigott. 'Yes, that is what I say; I must have had something else in my mind which I cannot at present recollect—that I must have had other charges.'