1 86 THE SUTHERLAND CLEARANCES. 



will be lottd off early in spring, so that the tenants may enter to 

 possession at Whitsunday first. 



(Signed) "WILLIAM YOUNG." 



GOLSPIE INN, > 

 Dec. 5, 1813. J 



GOLSPIE INN, December 15, 1813 



The within, after having been read by Mr. Young, in presence of the 

 people, was explained to them, in Gaelic, by me. 



(Signed) DAVID M'KENZIE. 



The Counsel for Mr. Sellar having admitted that the declaration by 

 that gentleman, in presence of the Sheriff-Substitute, was freely and 

 voluntarily emitted, it was read as follows : 



At Dornoch, the ^\st day of May, 1815, and within the Ordinary Court- 

 Room there, 



In presence of ROBERT M'KiD, Esq., Sheriff-Substitute of the Shire of 

 Sutherland. 



Compeared Mr. Patrick Sellar, present prisoner in the tolbooth of 

 Dornoch, who being judicially examined and interrogated, declares, 

 That, for about four years and a half past the declarant has acted as 

 under factor for the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford ;* that is, the 

 declarant has a factory for collection of the rents, and for carrying 

 into effect the arrangements made by William Young, Esq., of Inver- 

 ugie, upon the noble proprietors' estate in Sutherland, and particularly 

 the department of outputting and inputting tenants, in fulfilment of such 

 arrangements. That the declarant's place of residence is at Culmaily, 

 in the parish of Golspie, and shire aforesaid. Declares, That he knows 

 a set of certain parts of his constitutents' lands were made at Golspie, 

 upon the I5th day of December, 1813, in consequence of previous ad- 

 vertisements ; that the declarant was present at the said set, at least 

 during the greater part of the time, and he knows that a paper was read 

 by Mr. Young to those assembled upon the occasion, and also explained 

 in the Gaelic language by Mr. David M'Kenzie. That the import of 

 the said paper was, that Mr. Young was to lay off allotments in the 

 lower part of the country for the removed tenants. That about the 

 beginning of harvest, 1813, the declarant, who farms about 400 arable 



* N.B. This must have crept in by mistake. Mr. Sellar is factor, and never was 

 "under factor over Lady Stafford's estates". 



