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TRIAL OF

DUNCAN TERIG ALIAS CLERK,
AND
ALEXANDER BANE MACDONALD,

FOR THE MURDER OF

ARTHUR DAVIS,
SERGEANT IN GENERAL GUISE'S REGIMENT OF FOOT.

JUNE,
A.D. M.DCC.LIV.



EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY.
1831.




TO

THE MEMBERS OF THE BANNATYNE CLUB,

THIS COPY OF A TRIAL,
INVOLVING A CURIOUS POINT OF EVIDENCE,
IS PRESENTED

BY

WALTER SCOTT.

FEBRUARY, M.DCCC.XXXI.




Transcriber's Note: Letters that are printed as superscript are
indicated by being preceeded by a caret (^).



THE BANNATYNE CLUB.

M.DCCC.XXXI.


SIR WALTER SCOTT, BAR^T.

[PRESIDENT.]

THE EARL OF ABERDEEN, K.T.
RIGHT HON. WILLIAM ADAM,
    LORD CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF THE JURY COURT.
JAMES BALLANTYNE, ESQ.
SIR WILLIAM MACLEOD BANNATYNE.                            5
LORD BELHAVEN AND STENTON.
GEORGE JOSEPH BELL, ESQ.
ROBERT BELL, ESQ.
WILLIAM BELL, ESQ.
JOHN BORTHWICK, ESQ.                                     10
WILLIAM BLAIR, ESQ.
THE REV. PHILIP BLISS, D.C.L.
GEORGE BRODIE, ESQ.
CHAR