the Monday after the Serjeant was believed to be murdered, the country
was raised to make search for the body, but it was not found; and that
she spoke to one of the prisoners, Clerk, whom she took to be a
particular friend, to try if he could find the body, but it was not
found: That afterwards the deponent went to the garrison in Braemar,
and from that to the regiment: And being interrogate for the panels,
whether her husband had received any information before the party
marched out upon the day above mentioned that there were people in arms
in that country where he was stationed? Depones, That her husband was
stationed there, as she believes, because it was said that severals of
the Highlanders had not delivered up their arms since the Rebellion,
and wore the highland garb; but that she knows nothing of any
particular information he had about that time, except that about the
beginning of harvest, on a Sunday afternoon, a woman, who said she had
been in the hill, came in where the Serjeant and the deponent were
sitting at dinner, and said, that she had seen two men in highland
clothes, and armed, lying at the mouth of a cave, who seemed to be
herding two cows which she saw, and upon her coming near them,
consulted among themselves whether they should not bind her lest she
should return and advertise Serjeant Davies and his party; but however,
she had got away, and had come immediately to give notice to the
Serjeant and his party, whereupon he and a party of six men went up in
quest of them, but found nobody, neither did the deponent hear any more
of that matter afterwards, _Causa scientiae patet_: And this is truth,
as she shall answer to God; and declares she cannot write.

(Signed) CH. ARESKINE.

DONALD FARQUHARSON, in Glendee, married man, who being solemnly sworn,
purged of malice and partial council, and interrogate, depones, That in
summer one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine, Arthur Davies, late
serjeant in General Guise's regiment, was with a serjeant's command of
soldiers stationed in Dubrach, in Glendee, in Braemar, in
Aberdeenshire; and the Serjeant, with his wife, the preceding witness,
stayed in the house of Michael Farquharson, the deponent's father,
where the deponent also stayed: Depones, That the Serjeant was a sober
well behaving man, very civil to the country, and, so far as the
deponent knew, had the good-will of the country: That he was a good
manager of his money; an