ncil, by the sworn interpreter aforesaid, Depones, That she lived in
the same town with Duncan Clerk, the panel's father, who is now dead:
That the evening of the day upon which Serjeant Davies was first
amissing, she saw Duncan Clerk, the panel, return from the hill to his
father's house about sun-setting, having a plaid upon him, with a good
deal of red in it, but whether he had a gun in his hand the deponent
did not observe: That Duncan Clerk's father was that day working among
his corns; and the deponent did not see the said Duncan about the town
till the evening, as above deponed upon. And further depones, being
interrogate for the panel, That when she first saw Duncan Clerk, she
was among the corns with his father a little below the town, and that
Duncan was about a gun-shot from her, coming towards his father's house
from the hill, and that he came near to the place where she was with
his father. _Causa scientiae patet._ And this is the truth, as she shall
answer to God. And this deposition is signed by the foresaid sworn
interpreter.

(Signed) DUNCAN CAMPBELL.
ALEX^R FRASER.

LAUCHLAN M'INTOSH, servant to William Grant of Burnside, aged
twenty-one years, solemnly sworn, purged of malice and partial council,
examined and interrogate, Depones, That he was a servant to Michael
Farquharson in Dubrach, in whose house Serjeant Davies quartered: That
he saw the Serjeant have a little pen-knife, upon the end of the haft
of which there was a seal for sealing of letters, and he heard the
Serjeant say that was the use he made of the said seal: That he saw
Serjeant Davies leave his master's house about sun-rising that day upon
which he was amissing; that he never saw him since: That about two
years thereafter, being on the hill with Alexander Macdonald the panel,
and the said Alexander Macdonald had in his hand a pen-knife, which the
deponent saw, very like the pen-knife which Serjeant Davies had above
mentioned: That the deponent, upon seeing that pen-knife, told
Macdonald that the pen-knife he then had was very like Serjeant
Davies's pen-knife, and Macdonald made answer that there were many
siclikes: And further depones, That he saw the Serjeant have a green
silk purse, in which he saw the Serjeant put in and take out several
pieces of gold: The deponent does not remember what the handle of the
Serjeant's knife was made of, nor does he remember what was engraven on
the