The trial lasted from 7 a.m. of June 11 till 6 a.m. of June
14. The jury deliberated for two hours before arriving at a verdict.
{142} Sydney, no date.
{144} Phantasms, ii., 586, quoting (apparently) the Buckingham
Gazette of the period.
{145a} Oddly enough a Mr. William Soutar, of Blairgowrie, tells a
ghost story of his own to the S.P.R.!
{145b} I put them for convenience at the foot.--W. L. L.
{146a} The dogs in all these towns (farms) of Mause are very well
accustomed with hunting the fox.
{146b} Blair (Blairgowrie) is the kirk-town of that parish, where
there is also a weekly market: it lies about a mile below Middle
Mause on the same side of the river.
{146c} Knockhead is within less than half a mile of Middle Mause, and
the Hilltown lies betwixt the two. We see both of them from our
window of Craighall House.
{148a} This George Soutar died about two or three years ago, and was
very well known to William.
{148b} The Isle is a spot of ground in the wood of Rychalzie, about a
mile above Middle Mause, on the same side of the river.
{149a} Glasclune is a gentleman of the name of Blair, whose house
lies about three-quarters of a mile south-west from Middle Mause.
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