end of the handle of the pen-knife which the Serjeant had, nor the
end of the handle of the pen-knife which Macdonald had, but that both
seals were white. _Causa scientiae patet._ And this is the truth, as he
shall answer to God. And depones he cannot write.

(Signed) ALEX^R FRASER.

JOHN BROWN in Drumcraggan, aged sixty years, or thereby, solemnly
sworn, purged of malice and partial council by the sworn interpreter
aforesaid, and by him interrogate, Depones, That he was ground-officer
for the lands of Inverey, and was so at the time when Serjeant Davies's
body was amissing: That he was ordered by the Chamberlain of Inverey,
to call out the country people in search for Serjeant Davies's body,
which accordingly he did search for with the country people for two
days, without finding it: That the last of the two days, as the
deponent and the country people were returning home, and had given over
the search, the panel, Duncan Clerk, challenged the deponent for
troubling the country people with such an errand, and upon this the
deponent and the said Duncan Clerk had some scolding words. _Causa
scientiae patet._ And this is the truth, as he shall answer to God. And
depones he cannot write. And this disposition is signed by the foresaid
sworn interpreter.

(Signed) DUNCAN CAMPBELL.
ALEX^R FRASER.

_Follows the Witnesses adduced by the Panels in exculpation._

Captain JOHN FORBES of New, aged forty-five years, married, who being
solemnly sworn, purged of malice and partial council, examined and
interrogate, Depones, That James Small having suggested to the deponent
that it might be proper that Duncan Clerk the panel's wife, should be
examined upon what rings she had in her possession, and that some other
witnesses in relation thereto, might be precognosced, presented a
petition to the deponent, as the next Justice of Peace to where she
lived, craving, to the purpose above mentioned: That the deponent went
for that end to Braemaar; and she being summoned to appear at the
Castletown of Braemaar, appeared before the deponent, and declared, in
substance, as follows: That since she was married, a small brass ring,
which she then presented to the deponent, and a gold ring which she got
from her mother, and wore sometimes, were the only rings that she had
since her marriage; and that before her marriage she got a copper ring
from one Allan M'Donald, brothe