TRILL OF PATRICK SELLAR. 1 6$ 



securing and manufacturing the same; and especially the 

 lawful occupiers of the barns, kilns, mills, and other buildings 

 particularly above mentioned, to have been set on fire and 

 destroyed as aforesaid, did sustain great loss in their crops, 

 from being thus deprived of the means of securing and 

 manufacturing the same. AND FURTHER, you, the said 

 Patrick Sellar, did, time aforesaid, culpably kill Donald 

 M'Beath, father to Hugh M'Beath, then tenant in Rhims- 

 dale aforesaid, by unroofing and pulling down, or causing to 

 be unroofed and pulled down, the whole house in Rhimsdale 

 aforesaid, where the said Donald M'Beath was then lying on 

 his sick-bed, saving only a small space of roof, to the extent 

 of five or six yards, whereby the said Donald M'Beath was 

 exposed, in a cold and comfortless situation, without cover 

 or shelter, to the weather; and he, the said Donald M'Beath, 

 in consequence of being so exposed, never spoke a word 

 more, but languished and died about eight days thereafter, 

 and was thereby culpably killed by you, the said Patrick 

 Sellar : Or otherwise, you, the said Patrick Sellar, did, time 

 and place foresaid, cruelly expose the said Donald M'Beath 

 to the weather, without cover or shelter, by pulling down 

 and unroofing, or caused to be pulled down and unroofed, 

 the greater part of the house where he then lay sick in bed, 

 to his great distress, and the imminent danger of his life; 

 and this you, the said Patrick Sellar, did, notwithstanding 

 the entreaties of the said Hugh M'Beath and others, you 

 saying, in a rage, when it was proposed that the said Donald 

 M'Beath should remain, " The devil a man of them, sick or 

 well, shall be permitted to remain," or words to that effect. 

 AND FURTHER, you, the said Patrick Sellar, did, time 

 aforesaid, wickedly and maliciously set on fire, burn and 

 demolish, or cause and procure your assistants to set on fire, 

 burn and demolish the dwelling-house, barn, kiln, sheep-cot, 



