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 with me on horseback, at the foot of the ruinous inclosure, before we came 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 farther 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, for 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 rectify these matters. First, that I was owing justly to Provost Crosby £50 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 bond, 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 Orosby, wrote to me concerning this