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his wool, or was going to Badenoch to buy sheep : deposes, that 

 he saw upon the finger of Elizabeth Downie, the panel Duncan 

 Clerk's wife, a yellow ring, which she told him was gold, with a 

 plate on the outside of it in the form of a seal, and that he saw it 

 on her finger six or eight weeks before her marriage ; and that 

 after her marriage, she having one day taken it off her finger, 

 he saw upon the inside of it a stamp, but what that stamp is he 

 does not know ; and being interrogate, deposes, that he had a 

 suspicion that this ring was Sergeant Davies's ring, having heard 

 it reported in the country that Sergeant Davies had such a ring 

 upon his finger when he was murdered, but does not remember 

 his having told his suspicion to anybody ; and being further in- 

 terrogate, deposes, that since the panel Duncan's imprisonment, 

 the deponent was solicited by Donald Clerk, the panel Duncan's 

 brother, to conceal what he knew when he came to give evidence; 

 but this was after his having first solicited the deponent to leave 

 the country, that he might not give evidence, and upon the de- 

 ponent's saying he offered him nothing to leave the country with ; 

 but then it was that Donald proposed his not giving true evidence, 

 adding, that of every penny Donald was worth, the deponent 

 should have the half ; and being interrogated, at the desire of the 

 jury, if ever he had asked payment of the twenty pounds con- 

 tained in the above mentioned paper produced by him, deposes, 

 that he once did, shortly after the term of payment, to which 

 Duncan answered that it would be as well to let it lie in his 

 hands, with which he was satisfied ; and that he never asked pay- 

 ment of the annual rent ; and being further interrogate, deposes, 

 that before the deponent went home to the panel's service, at 

 Martinmas, 1750, it was well known and reported in the country 

 that the bones of the dead body found upon the above-mentioned 

 hill had been buried by the deponent and Donald Farquharson, as 

 also was the story of the vision or apparition, whereof the depon- 

 ent had told Donald Farquharson ; and being interrogate for the 

 panel, deposes, that he not only told the story of the vision, or 

 apparition to Donald Farquharson, as above mentioned, but that 

 he also told it to John Grawar and Daldownie before he men- 

 tioned it to Donald Farquharson ; deposes that there were folks 

 living with him at the sheiling, when the vision appeared to him 

 as above, but that he told it to none of them ; and adds that 

 Isabel M'Hardie, in Inverey, a woman then in the sheiling with 

 him, has told him since, that she saw such a vision as the depon- 

 ent has above described, and has told him herself so much ; and 

 upon the panel's interrogatory, deposes, that upon the vision's 

 appearing to him, it described the place where he would find the 

 bones so exactly, that the went within a yard of the place where 

 they lay upon his first going out : and this is the truth, as he shall 

 answer to God ; and deposes he cannot write. 



(Signed) JA. FERGUSON. 



