Lord High Steward—My lord, has your lordship 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 lordship 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 lordship and Mr. Coote?