Iohn Shand sometimes Servitor to Sir James Standsfield, aged 43 years, unmarried, purged and sworn, Depones, that a litle after Philip Standsfield the Pannals Marriage, the Pannal and the Deponent being in James Smiths House, in Nungate of Haddingtoun, the Pannal did ex∣postulat with the Deponent that his Father dealt too narrowly with him, he being then married, and the Deponent told the Pannal that his Father was in straits, and exhorted him to be dutiful to his Father; thereafter the Pannal said, if I knew my Father would give his Estate to my Brother Iohn, I would cut his Throat, and the Land-lord of the House being by, and present, and surprized, cryed out, God preserve me, what means the Man, the Land-lord understanding by the word, his, his Father; And though the Deponent took the Expression in the same sense, as Iames Smith did, yet the Deponent endeavoured to excuse it, by saying it was not his Father that he meaned, but his Brother or his man Donald, and the Pannal being present said nothing for clearing of the Expression, whereupon the Deponent went away, and left the Pannal, and could not endure to stay longer in his Company: De∣pones the night before Sir James Death being the Friday, the Deponent was with Sir James in his Chamber in Edinburgh, where the Defunct was reading a Sermon-book, and appeared to be sad, and said to the Deponent, I have no comfort in my Wife and Family; And this is the Truth as he shal answer to God, Sic subscribitur.
Iohn Shand.