xander Farquharson, in Inverey, and
there was a Sheriff-court held upon that matter at the Mill of
Achindryne, in which nothing was found against the said Duncan, but
John Ewes alias M'Donald was fined, and the deponent became cautioner
for him, that he should never speak about it again. _Causa scientiae
patet._ And this is the truth, as he shall answer to God.

(Signed) JOHN GREWER.
HEW DALRYMPLE.

ANGUS CAMERON, in Easter Finart, Rannach, aged thirty years and
upwards, solemnly sworn, purged of malice and partial council, by
Duncan Campbell, sworn interpreter, and by him interrogate, Depones,
That he was in Braemaar four years past at Michaelmas last; that is, in
the year 1749: That about an hour and a half before sun-set on the 28th
of September, he being on the hill of Galcharn, on the side thereof,
saw a man in a blue coat, with a gun in his hand, with a hat which had
a white edging about it, he knows not whether it was silver or not; and
saw other two men, one of whom was the panel Duncan Clerk, who he had
seen upon former occasions, and another man of a lower stature than the
said Duncan Clerk, coming up the hill towards the first mentioned man,
who was distant from him, the deponent, about a gunshot, upon, or near
the top of a hill opposite to him, the deponent, the name of which he
does not know, he being a stranger in that country; that there was
another man along with him, the deponent, named Duncan Cameron, and
that they were waiting there for other travellers, and his said
companion is dead about three years ago: Depones, That he saw Duncan
Clerk, the panel, and his companion, whom he did not, nor does not
know, meet with the man clad in blue, as aforesaid; and after they had
stood for some time together, he saw Duncan Clerk, the panel, strike at
the man in blue, as he thought, with his naked hand only, upon the
breast; but, upon the stroke, he heard the man struck cry out, and clap
his hand upon the place struck, turn about, and go off: That the panel
Duncan Clerk and the other man stood still for a little, and then
followed after the man in blue, and saw him, the said Duncan and the
other man, each of whom had a gun, fire at the man in blue: That the
two shots were very near one another; and immediately upon them, the
man in blue fell: That Duncan Clerk, the panel, had upon him a grey
plaid, with some red in it, whom he saw that same day, and his
compan