Q. Did you not say to Sir Walter Laurie, ‘lock me ever so close in a room and I will cause all the cloaths that were taken away hang down upon the spouts of the tower upon the morrow morning?’
A. Yes.
Q. Did you not say before me, the Minister, ‘lock the cloaths again in as fast a room as you can, and I’ll cause them, for a little money, go all back in the place where they were?’
A. Yes.
Q. Why did you not bring back the silver spoon that was lost?
A. It was in Edinburgh, and the name was scraped out, and I could not bring it back until I went to Edinburgh.
Q. Why did you not bring back the mattock and other things?
A. It had been on fire.
Q. Why did you not bring back all the aprons, for there is one of them awanting yet?
A. I could not bring it back because it was burnt, and when a thing is hid beneath the ground or the like I can’t get wott of that.