ty-ninth; and this admission is
signed by the said Duncan Clerk, and by Mr Alexander Lockhart,
procurator for the other panel, who declares he cannot write.

(Signed) DUNCAN CLERK.
ALEX. LOCKHART.

Thereafter, His Majesty's Advocate for proof adduced the following
witnesses; viz.--

JEAN GHENT, relict of Arthur Davies, serjeant in the regiment commanded
by Lieutenant-General Guise, aged about thirty-three years, who being
solemnly sworn, purged of malice and partial council, and interrogate:
Depones, That she was married for the space of ten months to Serjeant
Davies the day he was missing, and that in summer seventeen hundred and
forty-nine, her husband, with eight private men under his command,
marched from Aberdeen to Dubrach in Braemar, in the shire of Aberdeen,
which was assigned to him as his station; and that there was another
party of the same regiment whose head-quarters was at Aberdeen,
stationed at the Spittle of Glenlee, within eight miles of Dubrach,
under the command of a corporal: That the two parties did meet twice
a-week in patrol, about half way between the foresaid two places: That
her husband was a keen sportsman, and used to go out a-shooting or
fishing generally every day; and when he went along with the party on
patrol, sent the men home and followed his sport; and on other
occasions went out a-shooting by himself alone: That her husband was a
sober man, a good manager, and had saved money to the value of about
fifteen guineas and a half, which he had in gold, and kept in a green
silk purse, which he inclosed within a leather purse along with any
silver he had: That besides this gold, he generally wore a silver watch
in his pocket, and two gold rings upon one of his fingers, one of which
was of pale yellow gold, and had a little lump of gold raised upon it
in the form of a seal, with a gold stamp on the inside of the ring, and
a weaved line like a worm round the upper side of the plate: That the
other was a plain gold ring, which the deponent had got from David
Holland, her first husband, with the letters D. H. on the inside, and
had this posie on it, "When this you see remember me:" That the said
David Holland was paymaster-serjeant in General Guise's regiment: And
further depones, That the said Serjeant Davies commonly wore a pair of
large silver buckles in his shoes, marked also with the same letters D.
H. in the inside, which likewise had b