depone

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I don't know but I depone it was Scott and Charleton.

From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré

"In great force, you say, serjeant?" added Stubbs; "in overwhelming force—madness to attack them—you can depone on oath before a court-martial?"

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

His redimita comas, mores depone superbos,   Haec peritura nitent; tu peritura nites!

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

Hill, in his deposition, doth further depone, that he hasten'd him away all he could, and gave him a letter to Ardkinlas to receive him as a lost sheep; ...

From The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by Thomson, James Pringle

One of the hands speaking in vulgar English accent was heard to depone, 'By George if I could only get that prize I'd be a happy man, and would go back to old h-England.'

From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)