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Title: Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald
for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's
Regiment of Foot

Author: Sir Walter Scott

Release Date: July 26, 2008 [EBook #26133]

Language: English

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TRIAL OF

DUNCAN TERIG ALIAS CLERK,
AND
ALEXANDER BANE MACDONALD,

FOR THE MURDER OF

ARTHUR DAVIS,
SERGEANT IN GENERAL GUISE'S REGIMENT OF FOOT.

JUNE,
A.D. M.DCC.LIV.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY.
1831.

TO

THE MEMBERS OF THE BANNATYNE CLUB,

THIS COPY OF A TRIAL,
INVOLVING A CURIOUS POINT OF EVIDENCE,
IS PRESENTED

BY

WALTER SCOTT.

FEBRUARY, M.DCCC.XXXI.

Transcriber's Note: Letters that are printed as superscript are
indicated by being preceeded by a caret (^).

THE BANNATYNE CLUB.

M.DCCC.XXXI.

SIR WALTER SCOTT, BAR^T.

[PRESIDENT.]

THE EARL OF ABERDEEN, K.T.
RIGHT HON. WILLIAM ADAM,
LORD CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF THE JURY COURT.
JAMES BALLANTYNE, ESQ.
SIR WILLIAM MACLEOD BANNATYNE. 5
LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTON.
GEORGE JOSEPH BELL, ESQ.
ROBERT BELL, ESQ.
WILLIAM BELL, ESQ.
JOHN BORTHWICK, ESQ. 10
WILLIAM BLAIR, ESQ.
THE REV. PHILIP BLISS, D.C.L.
GEORGE BRODIE, ESQ.
CHARLES DASHWOOD BRUCE, ESQ.
THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBERRY. 15
JOHN CALEY, ESQ.
JAMES CAMPBELL, ESQ.
HON. JOHN CLERK, LORD ELDIN.
WILLIAM CLERK, ESQ.
HENRY COCKBURN, ESQ. 20
DAVID CONSTABLE, ESQ.
ANDREW COVENTRY, ESQ.
JAMES T. GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.
WILLIAM GIBSON CRAIG, ESQ.
HON. GEORGE CRANSTOUN, LORD COREHOUSE. 25
THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE.
JAMES DENNISTOUN, ESQ.
ROBERT DUNDAS, ESQ.
RIGHT HON. W. DUNDAS, LORD CLE