putting what is above deponed upon out of doubt, Depones, that the
above vision was the occasion of his going by himself to see the dead
body, and which he did before he either spoke to John Growar,
Daldownie, or any other body: And further Depones, that while he was in
bed another night after he had first seen the body by himself, but had
not buried it, the vision again appeared naked, and minded him to bury
the body; and after that he spoke to the other folks above mentioned,
and at last complied, and buried the bones above mentioned: Depones,
That upon the vision's first appearance to the deponent in his bed, and
after going out of the door, and being told by it he was Serjeant
Davies, the deponent asked him who it was that had murdered him, to
which it made this answer, that if the deponent had not asked him, he
might have told him, but as he had asked him, he said he either could
not or would not, but which of the two expressions the deponent cannot
say; but at the second time the vision made its appearance to him, the
deponent renewed the same question, and then the vision answered, that
it was the two men now in the panel that had murdered him: And being
further interrogate in what manner the vision disappeared from him
first and last, Depones, That after the short interviews above
mentioned, the vision at both times disappeared and vanished out of his
sight in the twinkling of an eye; and that in describing the panels by
the vision above mentioned as his murderers, his words were, Duncan
Clerk and Alexander Macdonald: Depones, That the conversation betwixt
the deponent and the vision was in the Irish language: Depones, That
several times in the harvest before the Martinmas after seeing the said
vision, he was applied to by Duncan Clerk, the panel, then to enter
home to his service at that time, which accordingly he did, and staid
in his service just a year, and he being in the hill together with
Duncan Clerk, spying a young cow, desired the deponent to shoot it; and
tho Duncan did not bid him carry it home after it should be shot, yet
the deponent understood that to be the purpose, when Duncan desired him
to shoot it, and which the deponent refused to do, adding, that it was
such thoughts as these were in his head when he murdered Serjeant
Davies, upon which some angry expressions happened between Duncan and
the deponent; but when the deponent insisted upon it that he could not
deny the murder, Duncan fell calm,