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Iohn Robertson above design'd being Re-examined, purged and sworn, Depones, That the Deponent being at Morum Castle after Harvest last, in order to give a call to a Minister, the Deponent having met with Philip Standsfield the Pannal, he said to him ye are a wise lad, if ye have subscribed that Bond, the Devil take him, and particularly, the Devil take his Father, and named his Father; depon'd that at another time in the midst of Harvest last, the Deponent and Sir James Standsfield the Pannal's Father being going to Smeitoun with a Minister, the Pannal asked him, where he and his Father was going? and the Deponent answered, that he was going to Smeitoun with his Father; And the Pannal Philip Standsfield said, Devil let never one of them come back again, Horse nor Man: depones further, That several times, and frequently, when the Deponent has been seeking the Pannal to come to Dinner with his Father, the Pannal's ordinar Answer was, the Devil damn him, and you both, and Devil rive him, for I will not go to him, and if he had a sixpence a day, he would not go near him, for his Father girned upon him like a Sheep-head in a tongs, and that he has heard him say some∣times, God damn his Father, And this is the Truth as he shal answer to God. Sic subscribitur.
Iohn Robertson.