Martyr Graves. 41 



Close to tlie .stone to Margaret Wilson is that to Margaret 

 Lachlan. It is a small upright stone. Its top edge is waved. 

 Upon this waved edge the words '• Memento More " are chiselled 

 out. The inscription is upon both sides of the stone. Upon the 

 one side it is : 



HERE LYES 

 MARGARET LACHLANE 

 WHO WAS BY UN 

 JUST LAW SENTENC- 

 ED TO DIE BY LAGG 

 .STRACHANE WIN 

 RAME AND GRHAME 

 AND TYED TO A 

 STAKE WITHIN THE 

 FLOOD FOR HER 



On one of the edges of the stone SURNAMED grier, and upon the 

 other side 



Cross Bones and Skull. 



ADHERENCE 

 TO SCOTLANDS RE 

 FORMATION COVE 

 NANTS NATIONAL 

 AND SOLEMN LEAGUE 

 AGED 63 1685 



These two stones are remarkable for the controversy about 

 the two Martyrs, denying or asserting their martyrdom that arose 

 shortly after the publication of Sheriff Napier's Memorials and 

 Letters of Dundee in 1859. The letters in the newspapers and 

 articles in the reviews and pamphlets that soon appeared would fill 

 several volumes. 



The stones themselves at least existed in 1730, for in that 

 year they appear among " the Epitaphs or inscriptions that are 

 upon the tombs or gravestones of the martyrs in several church- 

 yards and other places where they ly buried " in the third edition 

 of the " Cloud of Witnesses." In the first edition of the " Cloud," 

 published in 1714, they do not appear. This is the case also in 

 the second edition, issued in 1720. It is an exact fac swiile of the 

 first, although it is said in the title page to be " enlarged," but the 

 title page as a reprint must have been printed at the commence- 

 ment of the printing of the volume, when it would be uncertain 

 how the book would end. The last page in both editions is 



