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were earned by him to the Bridge of Urr, where Griei'son of Lagg 

 was administering the abjuration oath. Bruce desired that his 

 prisoners should be formally found guilty by a jury ; but Lagg 

 was impatient of ceremony, and next day he had them conveyed 

 to Irongray, where they were hung on an oak tree, and buried at 

 the foot of it. Over them there is a tombstone with the follow- 

 ing inscription : 



"Here lyes Edward Gordon and Alexander M'Cubbine, martyrs, hanged 

 without law by Lagg and Captain Bruce, for adhering to the Word of God, 

 Christ's Kingly Government in His own House, and Covenanted work of 

 Reformation against Tyranny, Perjury, and Prelacy, Rev. xii. 2, March 3d, 

 1685. 



As Lagg and bloodie Bruce command, 



We were hung up by hellish hand ; 



And thus their furious rage to stay, 



We died near Kirk of Irongray. 



Here now in peace sweet rest we take, 



Once murdered for religion's sake. " 



Mr Harper mentions that the fine engraving, by Mr B. Scott, of 

 a picture by Thomson of Duddingston, designated " Martyrs' 

 Tombs in the Bog of Loch-in-Kett, Galloway," represents in reality 

 the Martyrs' Grave at the Caldons, Glen Trool, and that the 

 engraving has in some unexplained way been therefore misnamed. 

 At Corsock Manse a cordial reception awaited the party at the 

 hospitable hands of Mr and Mrs Sturrock. Rain had been falling 

 for half an hour before the Manse was reached, and the shelter 

 was therefore no less welcome than the substantial repast, which 

 was immediately partaken of. Disappointing to the visitors, the 

 weather was equally so to the young people at the Manse ; for 

 arrangements had been made by them to entertain the company 

 at lawn tennis, ci'oquet, football, &c., and it was with no little 

 reluctance that these instruments of outdoor amusement had to be 

 abandoned. Leaving the Manse, with a pressing invitation cling- 

 ing to them to return for tea, the party proceeded to Corsock 

 House, the residence of Mrs Murray Dunlop, who had, when 

 asked, kindly consented to throw the grounds and gardens open, 

 and to place the boat at the service of the Society to navigate, if 

 desired, the loch. Mr Croal, gardener, who accompanied the 

 party, was most obliging in his information, and afforded no little 

 entertainment by the raciness of his historical nan-ative and inter- 

 esting bits of folkrlore. 



