and the night before the said
twenty-eighth of September, the serjeant from Braemar had come to
Dubrach, and in the deponent's presence had given some money which was
gold to Serjeant Davies, who gave him silver that he had by him for it,
to pay the party; and upon occasion of this, she saw the quantity of
gold above mentioned, which was in her husband's possession, and that
she saw the vest with the buttons and rings on his fingers, and also
the watch, before he went away, he having in her presence put on the
teiken drawers above mentioned, desired from her somewhat to keep the
watch dry, upon which she gave him a piece of cloth, the said drawers
being a little damp, in which he wrapt it, and put it into his pocket:
Depones, That he had dark mouse-coloured hair, tied up with a black
silk ribband behind, and wore a hat with a silver lace and silver
button, marked with the letters D. A. on the outside of the crown of
the hat: And the deponent verily believes, that the hat now shown to
her, and above referred to, is the hat he took out with him: Depones,
That he wore that day a pair of brogues which he had bespoke to be made
so as they could fit buckles, and not to be tied with latches, conform
to the common use of that country: That these brogues the deponent saw
when they were first brought home from Glenshee: Depones, That a gun
now exhibited and shown to the deponent, is the gun which her husband,
Serjeant Davies, received in a present from Lieutenant Brydon, of the
same regiment with him, and the gun which he always used when he went
a-shooting, and which he carried out with him in the morning of the
twenty-eighth of September, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine
aforesaid: That the stock of the gun is altered about the butt, and a
plate that was on the butt-end is taken away, and the wood pared, but
that she knows the barrel by a cross rent that is in it a little above
the middle, and which her husband told her had been occasioned by his
firing a shot when the gun was overloaded and the ball had stuck at
that part of the barrel when he was loading her: Depones, That from the
time her husband was quartered at Dubrach in the month of June to the
foresaid twenty-eighth of September one thousand seven hundred and
forty-nine, he was never absent a night from his command at Dubrach
except one, that he went to the doctor of the regiment to take his
advice about a strain, and he returned next morning: Depones, That upon