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

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presence of the said Hugh Rose and Alexander
Syme. Depones, That the deponent went the night
before the biil of suspension was to be presented to
the Lords, to the pannel's and Jean Key's lodgings,
where it was concerted, that one Murray, a mer-
chant or shop-keeper in Edinburgh, whom the de-
ponent found at that time in company with the pan-
nel and Jean Key, should next morning call at Jean
Key's lodgings, and bring her half an hour before nine
to the deponent's house, in order to go along with
him to the Lords of Session, to attend the advising of
the bill of suspension. Depones, That the deponent
attended next morning till after 1 1 ; and in respect
Jean Key did not come to his house as concerted,
the deponent did not attend the Lords of Session :
That the Lords afterwards called for the deponent,
and asked him the reason why the said Jean Key
had not appeared as mentioned in the bill ; and
why the deponent himself had not attended ? To
which the deponent answered, that Jean Key had
not come as concerted to attend their Lordships a-
long with him, and that he was determined to take
no concern, unless she appeared before the Court
and adhered. Depones, That the evening of that
same day, about 8 o'clock at night Jean Key came
alone to the deponent's house all in tears, and told
the deponent that the said Murray had car-
ried her from her lodgings, in order to have brought
her as he pretended to the deponent's house ; but
instead of that he had carried her to a public house
in the same close, which the deponent afterwards
understood was the house of John Ross, vintner,
where he had made her drink some white wine