That, in virtue of repeated observations, it was discovered that two men watched the Excise Office time about, and Ainslie and Brown found out that from eight to ten o’clock at night there was commonly no man in the Excise Office, which was the reason of the thing being done at that time. That it was concerted by Brodie, in case of interruption, by the man coming into the office before the business was accomplished, to conceal themselves quietly until he was gone to rest, and then to secure him; and they were, if this happened, to personate smugglers who came in search of their property that had been seized, and the declarant had a wig of Brodie’s father’s in his pocket in order to disguise himself; that the wig and scarf and small wedges were left in the second arch from the south of the North Bridge; that the scarf was within the wig. That Brodie, after having been in the Excise, where he had on black clothes, went home and changed them to his ordinary dress, of a marbled colour, and a round hat; and that Brodie told the declarant that his sister had remarked him changing his dress in such a hurry. That there is in Brodie’s house a horse-pistol belonging to the declarant, as also a very large, remarkable key, which Ainslie and Brodie stole from the Abbey when there was a sale there; that Brodie has a parcel of keys of different sorts, which he has been altering, and among them is the key which he had made for Inglis & Horner’s padlock; that, in Brodie’s bedroom, there is a chest containing a false till, in which the declarant inclines to think some of Brodie’s false dice and other things leading to a detection of his guilt may be found. That the College mace and Tapp’s watch were sent to Chesterfield, under the direction of William Ward, at William Cowley’s, “Bird in Hand,” Chesterfield, Derbyshire, to which place, and at which time, the rings taken from Tapp and the gold from the miniature picture were also sent; that a private letter was wrote by Brown, as he thinks, to one Tasker, formerly of this place, and whose real name is Murray, a man of bad character, which letter had no name at it but only a G. and S., and a stroke for each of the other letters in the declarant’s name; that the pocket-book taken from Tapp’s, with the money, was thrown by Ainslie and the declarant into a deep piece of water to the south of the Meadows. That the goods taken from Inglis & Horner’s shop were sent to Chesterfield in trunks, one of which was purchased by the declarant and another by Ainslie; that the declarant knows the places where they were purchased, and will point them out.