COUNSEL: Yes, m'lud.

JUDGE: Who were they?

COUNSEL: I--I don't know, m'lud.

JUDGE: These statements of theirs, to which you allude: are they
in their own handwriting?

COUNSEL: May it please your ludship, they did not write them.
The statements are not given as their own statements, but only
as statements "according to them." The statements are really
copies of translations of copies of translations of statements
supposed to be based upon what someone told Matthew, and--

JUDGE: Who copied and translated, and re-copied and re-translated,
this hearsay evidence?

COUNSEL: I do not know, m'lud.

JUDGE: Were the copies seen and revised by the authors? Did they
correct the proofs?

COUNSEL: I don't know, m'lud.

JUDGE: Don't know? Why?

COUNSEL: There is no evidence that the documents had ever been heard
of until long after the authors were dead.