bout four or five years ago,
after Serjeant Davies was amissing, his servant-maid, Isobel Ego, the
immediate preceding witness, being sent to the hills of Inverey to look
for some horses, when the said servant-maid returned, she told the
deponent's wife, as she told him, that she had come home richer than
she went out, having found in the hill a silver-laced hat: That his
wife, upon seeing the said hat, had no peace of mind, believing it to
be Serjeant Davies's hat, and desired it might be put out of her sight:
That the deponent, who was abroad, having come home, took the hat and
put it below a stone near to a burn which run by his shealling, where
his wife then was: That the hat was carried away from under the said
stone, but who it was that carried it off the deponent knows not.
_Causa scientiae patet._ And this is the truth, as he shall answer to
God; and depones he cannot write. And this deposition is signed by the
said sworn interpreter.

(Signed) DUNCAN CAMPBELL.
ALEX^R FRASER.

DONALD DOWNIE, at the miln of Inverey, aged thirty years or thereby;
solemnly sworn, purged of malice and partial council, by the sworn
interpreter aforesaid, and by him interrogate, Depones, That he was
loading his horse with corn, to be carried into the barnyeard at the
miln of Inverey, upon that day that Serjeant Davies was amissing: That
between the midday and sunset he heard three gunshots, but cannot tell
from what particular place the sound came: That the three shots were
pretty near one another, and all within less than a quarter of an hour.
Depones, That the Hill of Christie, libelled, is about a mile's
distance to the entrance thereof from the place where he then was, and
that it will be at least three miles from there to the place where the
bones were found. Depones, That he was told that Isobel Ego, a
preceding witness, found a hat in the Hill of Christie, which she
brought home and delivered to her master: That he heard her master hid
it at the Burnside, under a stone: That some time thereafter some of
the bairns of Inverey found the said hat, and brought it to his the
deponent's father's house, where he saw it; and the hat libelled being
shown to him, depones, he having inspected it, That it is the same hat
which was so brought to his father's house, and pointed out the letters
D. A. thereon at deponing, and that he himself delivered the said hat
to James Small, factor on t