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and after waiting till about three weeks after the term, he was under the 

 unpleasant necessity of putting the warrants into the hands of the officers 

 of court, and employing them to make the premisses void and redd. 

 And being asked who were the officers and party employed upon this 

 occasion? Declares that he does not pointedly remember, but he 

 believes they were Alexander Sutherland, in Backies, and Alexander 

 M'Kenzie, Sheriff-officer in Rogart, and also Kenneth Murray, in Iron- 

 hill, as he thinks : Declares, That he knows that the officers, under 

 these warrants, made void and redd, Rhiloisk, Rhiphail, Ravigill, 

 Rhimsdale, and part of Garvault ; the four former places were there- 

 after in the declarant's occupation, and the last in the occupation of 

 Roderick M 'Kay, whom the declarant left there, as he thought him the 

 most decent man in it ; and it was necessary, as he had the rent of it to 

 pay at Martinmas, that he should be put into possession as near the term 

 of Whitsunday as the declarant could. That there was a small part of 

 Rhiloisk in the midst of a morass, occupied by a tinker, of the name of 

 Chisholm, and he also was ejected, to make room for the people of 

 Rossal and Truderskaig, in favour of whom the declarant had subset 

 that part, and he was ejected on the I3th of June, to the best of the 

 declarant's recollection. That all the people were removed, excepting 

 some persons in Rhimsdale, who were represented to have sickness in 

 their families, and some women in Ravigill. That it was the declarant's 

 intention that the tinker in the upper part of Rhiloisk should be com- 

 pletely removed from his premisses, as he was represented by the people 

 to the tieclarant, to be a vagrant, who had come there without any 

 authority. That he had married, and lived in family with a second 

 wife in the lifetime of the first, who had lately visited him, in company 

 with some other tinkers, and that he was reputed a thief. Declares, 

 That all the houses, with the exception of Rhiloisk House, now in the 

 declarant's occupation, consisted of birch couples and roof, intermixed 

 with a few posts of moss-fir filled up with turf. That at the removal of 

 the tenants, the birch and other natural wood in the houses, is the pro- 

 perty of the entering tenant, in respect they were cut in the natural 

 woods on the property of the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford ; but 

 if he wish the moss-fir, he must pay a value for it by comprisement, 

 unless where the matter is regulated by a lease. That in all the other 

 cases of the removings above noticed, excepting that of the tinker and a 

 house in Rhimsdale, and another in Ravigill, that were necessary for the 

 temporary accommodation of the declarant's shepherds, the declarant, 

 the entering tenant, made the removing tenantry a present of the natural 

 wood in the houses they had lately occupied, and allowed them a fort- 



