Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert M'Gregor, three sons of the celebrated Rob Roy

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have been better about the time she was carried off,
but knows not how much.
Thomas Blair, brewer in Gartmore, depones,
That upon the 8th of December 1750, Ronald
M'Gregor, the pannel's brother, came to the de-
ponent's house and desired him to come to Chapel
Aroch to speak to the pannel James, who had
some business with him at Chapel Aroch : That
he accordingly went and found the pannel and his
brother there : That Robert told him it was he
that had sent for him and not the pannel, and
that he had an appointment that night with a
young woman who lived upon the Water of En-
rick, to marry her, and desired the deponent to go
along, as he knew the road best, the night being
dark, and told him the lady's name was Jean Key,
at Edinbelly. And this he the said Robert did in
presence of the pannel : That accordingly he went
along with the said James, Robert, and Ronald,
and seven persons more, who alighted from their
horses, about a furlong or two from the said Jean
Key's house, and he and Duncan M' Allan were
ordered to keep the horses and to be at a call with
them : That accordingly they were called ; and by
the time he came to the said Jean Key's house
with them, she had been brought out of it, and
she was put before the said Robert upon his horse,
and was carried off, and by what he could judge
of her words and behaviour, and her crying, Oh !
her mother, her mother, he thought she was car-
ried away by force, and contrary to her will and
inclination : That he heard her ask who it was