[Scott wrote and signed the notes for the Tour to the Hebrides.] Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald, for the murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's regiment of foot.

June, A.D.1754.

Edinburgh.
"To the members of the Bannatyne Club, this copy of a trial, involving a curious point of evidence, is presented, by Walter Scott." There is an introduction of 11 pages, giving the story of the crime, and bringing together instances from literature and history of the evidence of ghosts being cited in trials.

That is the "curious point of evidence" referred to.

The proceedings of the court are then reprinted without annotation.
1832 Tales of my Landlord.