TRIAL OF PATRICK SELLAR. 179 



sixteen couples in the house and byre, which were under the same roof. 

 Witness has lived there nine years against next Whitsunday. He took 

 the house from Mr. Falconer, then Lady Sutherland's factor, and at 

 first paid a rent of five shillings, but latterly he paid five guineas. He 

 held of the sub-tenants, and the five guineas were paid to James 

 Gordon, who collected for behoof of the rest. Cross-examined 

 Witness was first a smith, then a tinker. The ^3 belonged to the old 

 woman, and was intended to buy whisky to be used at her interment 

 The chest was usually locked, his wife had the key, and some money of 

 hers was in the chest. Witness and some of his neighbours saw the 

 money that day, before his wife went from home, which was about 

 seven o'clock in the morning, on the Sunday before Sellar intimated 

 that witness would be ejected ; and it was about six o'clock of the 

 morning of the ejection that he went to see that the money was in the 

 chest, in case it should be destroyed by the fire, which he expected. 



4th, Henrietta M 'Kay, wife of the preceding witness, left Badinlos- 

 kin early in the morning of the ejection from that place, and returned a 

 little after 12 o'clock noon ; when she came within a mile's distance of 

 the house, saw it going on fire, and she fell down, being afraid that her 

 mother was burnt. She was very weak and came slowly home, and 

 said she would complain of nothing if no lives were lost. One of the 

 children met her, and told her that her mother was alive. She found 

 her mother speechless in a small house, without a door ; part of the 

 roof of which was spoiled. The house was not a sheep cot, but kept for 

 a small horse. Her mother never spoke to her, and died on Saturday 

 thereafter, the fifth day, in the same small house. The blanket in which 

 she had been wrapt was burnt in two or three places. She was weak and 

 sickly, but spoke to those about her that morning before witness left 

 her, and was 92 years of age. The chief part of the furniture had been 

 removed ; no chest whatever was burnt. There were three pounds in 

 the house, but whether they were burnt or taken away, the witness 

 knows not. These three notes were deposited by her six weeks before 

 in a hole in the wall, and there was a shilling, which had been picked 

 up by one of the hens. Witness never looked whether the three pounds 

 remained, as she was under no apprehension about it, no person know- 

 ing it was there. She had no key that day, and there was no lock or 

 key for any chest in the house. 



5th, John M'Kay, in Achafrish of Rossal, remembers going to Badin- 

 loskin, a little past II o'clock on the day of the ejection ; Sellar came 

 up a little past 12 o'clock ; the officers having been there before him, 



