he estate of Strowan. _Causa scientiae
patet._ And this is the truth, as he shall answer to God.

(Signed) DONALD DOWNIE.
ALEX^R FRASER.

JOHN COOK, barrackmaster at Braemar Castle, aged thirty years and
upwards, _solutus_, solemnly sworn, purged of malice and partial
council, examined and interrogate, Depones, That the hat libelled now
shown to him, was delivered by Donald Downie, the preceding witness, to
James Small, before designed, at the house of one Charles, in
Castletown of Braemar, and was delivered to the said deponent by Mr
Small, to be kept by him till it should be called for; and that he
brought it along with him to town, and he knows it to be the same by
the letters D. A. which he often observed thereon, and now at deponing:
Depones, That after Serjeant Davies was amissing, a report sprung up,
that one Levingston, a soldier, having a prejudice at him, had murdered
him; but, upon enquiry, it being found, who had had leave of absence,
returned to the garrison the afternoon of that day on which the
Serjeant was amissing; the report thereon ceased, and about ten days
thereafter it was reported that the Serjeant had been murdered by two
young men about Inverey. And about a year and a half after the Serjeant
had been amissing, he heard Duncan Clerk the panel named as one of
them, but never heard any thing of Alexander Macdonald, the other
panel, till he was committed prisoner to the Castle of Braemar in
September last. _Causa scientiae patet._ And this is the truth, as he
shall answer to God.

(Signed) JOHN COOK.
HEW DALRYMPLE.

Compeared JOHN GRANT, in Altalaat, aged forty years and upwards,
married, solemnly sworn, purged of malice and partial council, examined
and interrogate: Depones, That both the panels lodged in his house upon
the night of the twenty-seventh of September, one thousand seven
hundred and forty-nine: That next morning they breakfasted, after the
sun rising, with him; and as he was going to a Michaelmas fair, when he
came out of his house, he looked and saw the two panels at his door,
each having a gun in his hand, and they told him that they intended to
go a deer hunting, but did not mention to what place: That the deponent
accordingly went to the fair, and returned in about four days home, and
then heard that a soldier who had been upon some of the hills was
amissing, and in a very sho