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 with me on horſeback, at the foot of the ruinous incloſure, before we come to Dod: I told him his laſt converſation had proved ſo acceptable to me, that I was well pleaſed to ſee him again; and that there was a vaſt number of things that I wanted to inform myſelf further of, if he would be ſo good as to ſatisfy me.

Cool. Laſt time we met, I refuſed you nothing you aſked; and now I expect that you ſhall refuſe me nothing that I ſhall aſk.

Ogil. Nothing, Sir, that is in my power, or that I can do with ſafety to my reputation and character. What then are your demands?

Cool All that I deſire of you is, that as you promiſed that on a Sabbath day you would go to my wife, who now poſſeſſes all my effects, and tell her the following particulars; and tell her in my name to rectity theſe matters. Firſt, that I was owing juſtly to Provoſt Croſby, 50l. Scots, and three years intereſt; but hearing of his death, my good brother, the laird of C-l, and I, forged a diſcharge, narrated the band, the ſum, and other particulars with this honourable clauſe, 'And at the time it had fallen by, and could not be found:' With an obligation, on the Provoſt's part, to deliver up the bond as ſoon as he could hit upon it. And this diſcharge was dated three months before the Provoſt's death. And when his ſon and ſucceſſor, Andrew Croſby, wrote to me concerning this