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for about two months only, suffered the most a-
trocious injuries of hamesucken, violent or forcible
abduction from her own house into parts remote
and distant from her friends and relations, and then
a forcible marriage or form thereof, celebrated be-
twixt the said Robert and her; and last of all, a
forcible violation of her person, by the said Robert,
whereof the two latter injuries were intended as a
completion of the two former, and the whole was
begun, continued, and ended with the wicked and
lawless intent of making the said Robert's fortune,
by procuring for him, by force, the possession of the
person and estate of the said Jean Key ; and the
said James M'Gregor was guilty, or art and part,
of all, or one or other of the foresaid crimes. And
for proving that he, the said -lames, was guilty as
aforesaid, there would be produced against him by
way of evidence, besides very credible witnesses,
the following documents in writing, which were in
the hands of the Clerks of the Court of Justiciary,
where he might see the same : namely, First, Ex-
tract of a sentence of fugitation pronounced in a Cir-
cuit Court of Justiciary held at Perth upon the 25th
of May 1751, against him the said James, and against
Robert and Ronald his brothers, and five others of
his accomplices, for his and their failing to appear
to stand trial for the foresaid crimes,, whereof the
said James M'Gregor was then accused as above :
Secondly, Extract of the sentence of fugitation pro-
nounced by the High Court of Justiciary at Edin-
burgh, the loth day of July 1786, against the
said Robert, his brother, for not appearing to un-
derly the law for the murder of the deceased John,

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