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remember that there were any threats to break
open doors, or any swearing : That at last the
mother brought the said Jean Key out of a closet,
where she had been hiding herself, into the kit-
chen ; and then James said, they behoved to have
a private word with her ; and to which her mother
answered, that that they should not have; upon which
James told her, that they must have it, but would
use her discreetly : And after some discourse of
this kind, at last ^he said Jean Key said, She
would not go, unless her uncle was with her, who
was to her a parent ; upon which James said, with
all his heart: And the mother going to light a
candle to carry them to another room, the depo-
nent assisted her, and took the candle into his
hand, and desired to know from her where he
should carry it ; and she directed him to go to the
west room, where he entered and put the candle
into a candlestick ; and then was ordered to gO out
of the room, for he had no business there. De-
pones, That there went into that room, James
M'Gregor, his brother, the pannel, and a third
man, whom the deponent did not know ; as also
Jean Key, her mother, and aunt, and Thomas
Key, her uncle. Depones, That William Gal-
braith went also into the room, but was turned
back : That the door was put to ; and that there
were Highlandmen in the kitchen and trance : That
within a short space after they went into the west-
er room, the deponent heard the said Jean Key
cry excessively, and so bitterly, that she could not
have cried more if they had been tearing her, but
uttered no words ; and immediately thereafter, she