ng in the other, she saw
something naked come in at the door, which frighted her so much that
she drew the clothes over her head: That when it appeared, it came in
in a bowing posture, and that next morning she asked M'Pherson what it
was that had troubled them the night before? to which he answered, she
might be easy, for that it would not trouble them any more. _Causa
scientiae patet._ And this is truth, as she shall answer to God. And
this deposition is subscribed by the said sworn interpreter.

(Signed) DUNCAN CAMPBELL.
JA. FERGUSON.

Compeared, JAMES MACDONALD in Allanquoich, solemnly sworn, purged of
malice and partial council, aged thirty-one years, married, examined
and interrogate: Depones, That it is about two or three years since
Clerk, the panel, was married to Elizabeth Downie, Alexander Downie's
daughter, and hearing it reported in the country, that he should have
said, that if his son-in-law had not killed Serjeant Davies, Serjeant
Davies would have killed him: That the deponent asked of Alexander
Downie, about lentron last, whether he had said so? and Alexander
Downie acknowledged to him that he had said so: And the deponent heard
that the occasion of this report in the country was, that Alexander
Downie being at a miln, some of the people there upbraided Alexander
Downie with his son-in-law Clerk, the panel, his having killed the said
Serjeant: And Downie said, as the deponent heard, what could his
son-in-law do, since it was in his own defence: Depones further, That
he saw upon Elizabeth Downie, Clerk's wife, her thumb, a yellow ring,
which he took to be gold; and this he saw after her marriage, having a
little knap upon it like into a seal, having scores or lines round
about it, and this he saw frequently upon her hand, which ring the
deponent suspected to be Serjeant Davies's ring, and it was so
suspected in the country. _Causa scientiae patet._ And this is the
truth: And says further, That Clerk the panel, was reputed to be guilty
of thieving in the country, but that he heard nothing to the prejudice
of M'Donald's character: And being interrogate for the panel, depones,
That he never heard Clerk the panel, guilty of any particular theft
except one of a parcel of sheep, from one Alexander Farquharson in
Inverey, about nine or ten years ago. All which is truth, as he shall
answer to God; and depones he cannot write.

(Signed) AL