Ogil.] Nothing, Sir, that is in my power, or that I can 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 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 the matters. Firſt, That I was owing juſtly to Provoſt Croſby 500l. Scots, and three years interest: but upon hearing of his death, my good-brother the laird of Chappel and I, forged a diſcharge, narrated the bond, the ſum and other particulars, with this onerous clauſe, that at the time it was 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 3 months before the Provcft's death; and when his ſon and ſucceſſor Andrew Croſby wrote to me concerning this bond, I came to him, and ſhewed him the diſcharge, which ſilenced him to that I got out my bend without more ado. And when I heard of Robert Kennedy's death, with the ſame help of Chappel, I got a bill upon him for 100l. of which I got full and complete payment, and Chappel got the half. When I was at Dumfries, the day that Thomas Grier died, to whom I was owing an account of 36. Chappel, my good-brother, was then at London, and not being able of myſelf, being but a bad writer, to get a diſcharge of the account, which I wanted exceedingly; I met accidentally with Robert Boyd, a poor writer and in Dumfries, I took him to Mrs. Cornock's, and gave him a bottle of wine, and told him that I had paid Thomas Grier's account but wanted a diſcharge, and if he would help me to it, I would reward him: He fled away from me in a great paſion, ſaying, He would rather be hanged, but if I had a mind for theſe things, I had better wait till Chappel came home. This gave me great trouble, fearing that what Chappel and I had done formerly was no ſecret, I followedBoyd
