rt time heard it was Serjeant Davies: That
at first it was rumoured that some of the Serjeant's own men had killed
him; and afterwards that he had been killed by some outlaws; and after
that it was clattered that the panels had killed him: Depones, That the
night the panels lodged with him as above, one of them talked of going
the next morning in quest of horses for leading in corn, without
mentioning from where. _Causa scientiae patet._ And this is the truth,
as he shall answer to God. This deposition signed by Duncan Campbell,
sworn interpreter.

(Signed) DUNCAN CAMPBELL.
HEW DALRYMPLE.

JOHN GRANT, son to the said John Grant in Altalaat, aged twenty years,
solemnly sworn, purged of malice and partial council, by the sworn
interpreter aforesaid, and by him interrogate: Depones, That he knows
the panels, and that they lodged with his father the night of the
twenty-seventh of September, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine:
That next morning the panels, each of them having a gun, and Duncan
Clerk a grey plaid about him, went up the water to the hill of Gleneye,
which is about a mile and a half distant from the hill of Christie:
That the road they took was not the direct road to the hill last named;
and before they went they said they were going a deer hunting and for
horses to lead in their corns: That three or four days after this, they
heard that Serjeant Davies was amissing, and that he was killed in the
hill of Christie; but the last part of this he did not hear till some
time, a year or two thereafter. _Causa scientiae patet._ And this is
truth, as he shall answer to God.

(Signed) DUNCAN CAMPBELL.
HEW DALRYMPLE.

ELSPETH MACARA, in Inverey, late servant to Duncan Clerk, one of the
panels, aged thirty-two years; solemnly sworn, purged of malice and
partial council, as aforesaid, and interrogate, Depones, That she was
fellow-servant, about three years ago, with Alexander Macgillies, a
preceding witness, in Duncan Clerk, the panel's house: That she once
saw in the said Alexander's hands a yellow ring, but knows not if it
was gold, with a knob upon it of the same metal; which ring she
frequently observed on the finger of the wife of the said Duncan Clerk.
And further depones, That the said knob was bigger above and smaller
below, and shaped something like a heart. _Causa scientiae patet._ And
this is truth,