Jeffreys—I don't think it fit for me to interrupt a person of your honour, my lord, but your lordship knows in what place we stand here: What you can say of anything you heard of my lord Howard, we are willing to hear, but the other is not evidence. As the court will not let us offer hearsays, so neither must we that are for the king permit it.
Lord Anglesey—I have told you what happened in my hearing.
Mr. Howard was then called, and after describing steps he took to prevail on Lord Howard to come over to the King's side, when 'I sometimes found my lord very forward and sometimes softened him'; and continuing—
Lord Chief-Justice—Pray apply yourself to the matter you are called for.
Mr. Howard—This it may be is to the matter, when you have heard me: for I think I know where I am, and what I am to say.
Lord Chief-Justice—We must desire you not to go on thus.
Mr. Howard—I must satisfy the world, as well as I can, as to myself, and my family, and pray do not interrupt me. After this, my lord, there never passed a day for almost——
Lord Chief-Justice—Pray speak to this matter.
Howard—Sir, I am coming to it.
Lord Chief-Justice—Pray, Sir, be directed by the Court.