o’clock.[17] Mr. Brodie was then at home. I was in his house from dinner until within a few minutes of eight o’clock at night. There was present at dinner in company a stranger gentleman whose name I do not know, the prisoner’s two sisters, and an old lady, his aunt. We drank together from dinner to tea, which I think was brought in about six o’clock, and then the stranger gentleman went away. We sat in the same room all the while I was there. Mr. Brodie was dressed in lightish-coloured or grey clothes. Before I came away, Mr. Brodie pressed me to stay supper with him, but I declined his invitation, saying I was engaged. When I came away, I left Mr. Brodie in his own house. I went directly from his house to my own house in Bunker’s Hill.[18] Mr. Brodie dined with me next day (Thursday), and remained with me in my house from three o’clock until eleven o’clock at night.[19] Cross-examined by the LORD ADVOCATE--What was the gentleman’s name who was in company with you? WITNESS--I do not know; I do not remember his name. The LORD ADVOCATE--Did you hear his name mentioned? WITNESS--I may perhaps have heard him named while at table with him, but as he went away early in the evening, and as I had no reason at the time to pay any particular attention to his name, it has escaped me. The _Lord Advocate_--When did you sit down to dinner? WITNESS--We sat down to dinner about three o’clock. The LORD ADVOCATE--Are you sure Mr. Brodie did not leave the room from dinner until you parted with him? WITNESS--I am certain Mr. Brodie did not leave the room. The LORD ADVOCATE--Did you, on your way home, hear any clock strike or bell ring? or how do you know that it was precisely a few minutes from eight o’clock when you left Mr. Brodie? WITNESS--I do not remember to have heard any clock strike or bell ring on my way home, but I had a clock in my house and a watch in my pocket. I am sure that I reached my own house within a few minutes of eight, either before or after it, and I had occasion to remark the hour from Mr. Brodie being so immediately afterwards accused of having that night broke into the Excise Office, a thing which I did not then, and which I do not yet, believe. [Sidenote: Jean Watt] 2. JEAN WATT, residenter in Libberton’s Wynd, called in and sworn. The LORD ADVOCATE--I wish to know from this woman whether or not she is married. (To witness)--Are you married?[20] WITNESS--No; I am not married. [The examination was then allowed to proceed.] I am well acquainted with the prisoner, William Brodie. I remember that on Wednesday, the 5th of March last, Mr. Brodie came to my house just at the time the eight o’clock bell was ringing, and he remained in it all night, and was not out from the time he came in until a little before nine o’clock next morning. We went early to bed, about ten o’clock, as Mr. Brodie complained that night of being much indisposed with a sore throat.