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night, as he thinks, after the middle of June, for removing any part left 

 behind them at the period of the ejections. That a few of the sub- 

 tenants, who were to have entered to the place in the occupation of the 

 tinker, went out there on purpose to bring in the woman he lived with 

 into the Strath at the time of the ejection. That the declarant was not 

 present at the first part of the ejection, but he arrived there on his way 

 to the low country, in the afternoon ; and on his Teaching the place, he 

 found that the officers had already ejected the man's furniture, such as 

 it was, and that the house was nearly unroofed, but that there was 

 another small house fronting the east end of the dwelling-house ; that 

 it was untouched, and that the tinker's wife was employed removing 

 their things from the green into it. That the declarant mentioned to 

 the entering sub-tenants that they had better take the woman and her 

 family, and such furniture as was there, into the Strath with them, but 

 they informed him, that there was an aged person there who could not 

 then be removed such a distance ; that she was the mother of the 

 tinker's wife, and it was necessary that this woman should be left there 

 to assist her. Declares, that the declarant is not positive, but he under- 

 stands that the old woman had been removed by this time, by her 

 daughter, into the small house above mentioned, to be opposite the 

 east end of the dwelling-house ; and his reason for thinking so is, that 

 he did not see her at all, and the dwelling-house or hut was by this time 

 unroofed. That the declarant asked the tinker if he would make off 

 with himself, but he indicated that he would not do so ; and as he was 

 considered to be a lawless man, who would rebuild his house, and 

 settle again there, in the face of the Sheriff's decreet of removing, the 

 declarant thought it proper to purchase the moss-fir part ; and all the 

 timber being thus the property of the entering tenant, that he would 

 prevail on the sub-tenants above mentioned to remove it along with him: 

 That for the purpose of appreciating the moss timber, the officer's party 

 and people separated it from the other timber, and having valued it a 

 few shillings, the declarant paid the amount to the tinker before all 

 present, and the sub-tenants took a part of it. That there was a very 

 considerable part, however, which they left, and the declarant consider- 

 ing it to be his property ; ordered the party to collect it in the place, and 

 to burn it along with the parcel of turf which had been thrown off the 

 house, in the demolishing of it. And thereafter, the declarant proceeded 

 on his journey, leaving the tinker's family in the small house into which 

 they had removed. That the entering sub-tenants promised to the declarant 

 that they would remove the woman and her family into Strathnaver, 

 as soon as her mother might be better ; but the declarant has afterwards 



