TRIAL OF PATRICK SELLAR. 



THE INDICTMENT. 



PATRICK SELLAR, now or lately residing at Cul- 

 maily, in the parish of Golspie, and shire of Suther- 

 land, and under factor for the Most Noble the Marquis and 

 Marchioness of Stafford. You are indicted and accused, at 

 the instance of Archibald Colquhoun of Killermont, his 

 Majesty's Advocate for his Majesty's interest: THAT 

 ALBEIT, by the laws of this and of every other well- 

 governed realm, CULPABLE HOMICIDE, as also 

 OPPRESSION and REAL INJURY, more particularly 

 the wickedly and maliciously setting on fire and burning, or 

 causing and procuring to be set on fire and burnt, a great 

 extent of heath and pasture, on which a number of small 

 tenants and other poor persons maintain their cattle, to the 

 great injury and distress of the said persons ; the violently 

 turning, or causing and procuring to be turned out of their 

 habitations, a number of the said tenants and other poor 

 people, especially aged, infirm, and impotent persons, and 

 pregnant women, and cruelly depriving them of all cover or 

 shelter, to their great distress, and the imminent danger of 

 their lives ; the wickedly and maliciously setting on fire, 

 burning, pulling down, and demolishing, or causing and 

 procuring to be set on fire, burnt, pulled down, and 



