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at least the bones of a human body, of which the flesh was mostly 

 consumed, and he believed it to be the body of Sergeant Davies, 

 because it was reported in the country that he had been murdered 

 on that hill the year before ; that when he first found this body, 

 there was a bit of blue cloth upon it pretty entire, which he took 

 to be what is called English cloth ; he also found the hair of the 

 deceased, which was of a dark mouse colour, and tied about with 

 a black ribbon ; that he also observed some pieces of a striped 

 stuff ; and also found lying there a pair of brogues, which had 

 been made with latches for buckles, which had been cut awav 

 by a knife ; that he, by help of his staff, brought out the body, 

 and laid it upon plain ground, in doing whereof, some of the bones 

 were separated one from another ; deposes, that for some da} 7 s he 

 was in doubt what to do, but meeting with John Grawar in the 

 moss, he told John what he had found, and John bid him tell 

 nothing of it, otherwise he would complain of the deponent to 

 John Shaw of Daldownie, upon which the deponent resolved to 

 prevent Grawar's complaint, and go and tell Daldownie of it 

 himself : and which having accordingly done, Daldownie desired 

 him to conceal the matter, and go and bury the body privately, 

 as it would not be carried to a kirk unkent, and that the same 

 might hurt the country, being under the suspicion of being a rebel 

 country ; deposes, that some few days thereafter, he acquainted 

 Donald Farquharson, the preceding witness, of his having seen 

 the body of a dead man in the hill, which he took to be the body 

 of Sergeant Davies ; that Farquharson first doubted the truth 

 of his information, till the deponent told him that a few nights 

 before, when he was in bed, a vision appeared to him, as of a man 

 clad in blue, who told the deponent, " I am Sergeant Davies ; " 

 but that before he told him so, the deponent had taken the said 

 vision at first appearance to be a real living man, a brother of 

 Donald Farquharson ; that the deponent rose from his bed, and 

 followed him to the door, and then it was, as has been told, that 

 he said he was Sergeant Davies, who had been murdered in the 

 Hill of Christie, nearly about a year before, and desired the 

 deponent to go to the place he pointed at, where he would find 

 his bones ; and that he might go to Donald Farquharson, and 

 take his assistance to the burying of him ; that upon giving 

 Donald Farquharson this information, Donald went along with 

 him, and finding the bones as he had informed Donald, and 

 having then buried them with the help of a spade, which he, the 

 deponent, had along with him ; and for putting what is above 

 deposed upon out of doubt, deposes, that the above vision was the 

 occasion of his going by himself to see the dead body ; and which 

 he did before he either spoke to John Grawar, Daldownie, or any 

 other body ; and further deposes, that while be was in bed, 

 another night, after he had first seen the body by himself, but 

 had not buried it, the vision again appeared naked, and minded 

 him to bury the body ; and after that he spoke to the other folks 

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