Colonel Stanhope—No, indeed I did not; I always thought them to be very good friends.
Lord High Steward—Will your lordship go on to your next witness?
Earl of Warwick—Yes, my lord, there he is, Mr. Disney; I desire he may be asked what he knows of any expressions of kindness and friendship between me and capt. Coote.
Disney spoke to Lord Warwick lending Coote 100 guineas towards the price of his commission; he had observed great kindness between the two, and had several times seen Lord Warwick pay Coote's reckoning.
Colonel Whiteman was then called. He had constantly seen Lord Warwick and Coote together;
they dined together almost every day for half a year's time almost; and as to this time, when this business had happened, I went to my lord of Warwick, being sent for by him, and found him at a private lodging, where he expressed a great deal of concern for the death of his dear friend Mr. Coote; and he shewed me the wound he had received in his hand, and he desired he might be private, and he told me he believed people would make worse of it than it was, because he did not appear; but he did but intend to keep himself out of the way till he could be tried; and I took what care I could to get him a convenience to go to France.
Attorney-General—Pray, what reason did he give for his going away?
Colonel Whiteman—The king being at that time out of England, and so the parliament not sitting, he said he did not love confinement, and had rather be in France till the parliament should meet, and he might have a fair trial, which he thought he should best have in this House.
He had never seen any unkindness or quarrel between them.
Edmund Raymund, Lord Warwick's steward, knew of the loan of 100 guineas by him to Coote, and provided the money paid on that occasion.