TRIAL OF PATRICK SELLAR. 1 91 



heard, that the tinker presently set to work to find more timber, erected 

 a new hut equal to that which was demolished, and that he lives there 

 at this day ; that the name of the place, the declarant has heard, is 

 Badyloskin, and it is a pendicle of Rhiloisk. Interrogated, If the 

 declarant knows there was a kiln and bam at Badyloskin, and that they 

 were set fire to separately from the dwelling-house ? Declares, That 

 there was a turf hut opposite, nearly to the west end of the house ; that 

 the declarant supposes it may have been the man's barn ; that the moss- 

 fir was taken out of it, in like manner as out of the other house, and it 

 was valued over to, and paid for by the declarant. And thereafter the 

 wood of it was burnt ; but the declarant does not recollect if it was 

 mixed with the wood of the dwelling-house, or separately by itself. In- 

 terrogated, If he knows there was a small field of growing corn burnt at 

 the back of Chisholm's house, upon the occasion referred to ? Declares, 

 That he remembers perfectly there was a small field of corn near the 

 house, it might have been about a fourth-part of an acre and at that 

 season of the year, and in that climate, was at that time perhaps from 

 an inch and a half to three inches high. That it was not burnt upon 

 that occasion, nor was any corn burnt, to the declarant's knowledge. 

 Declares, that along the one side of this field, there was a small broken 

 fence of the moss turf. That the fire communicated for a yard or two 

 from the wood, along this fence, and the declarant assisted at putting it 

 out ; and it was extinguished. Interrogated, If the declarant knows, or 

 was informed by any person, that there were $ sterling in bank notes, 

 deposited in a hole in one of the gables of Chisholm's house, and that 

 they had been burnt along with the rest? Declares, That the de- 

 clarant knows that the wood was fairly separated from the house, 

 and the effects of the former occupants to all appearance fully re- 

 moved from the premises, before the comprisement of the timber, 

 and the burning of it, above declared to. That the declarant does 

 not believe that there was ten shillings worth of property of any 

 sort, either in or out of the house at any time. That the furniture 

 consisted of birch boughs, made rudely with an axe or knife, into 

 the form of stools, &c., and he apprehends there was no money in 

 it. That after the ignorant people had been stimulated by artful and 

 designing men to complain of oppression, the declarant heard that it was 

 reported by the tinker or his wife, that there had been money burnt in 

 the fire ; but he put no dependence on their veracity. Interrogated, If 

 he knows the name of William Chisholm was in any of the precepts of 

 ejection, which the Sheriff-officer had in his possession upon the occasion 

 before declared to ? Declares, That the officers were possessed of pre- 



