42 HoDDOM Old Chuuchyard. 



priuted down to tlie very bottom, and has the appearance as if 

 matter prepared for the vohnne had been crowded out for want of 

 space. 



The third stone is within tlie same raih'ng- as encloses the 

 stones to the memory of Margaret Wilson and Margaret Lachlan. 

 It is an upright stone and waved on its upper edge, and is some- 

 what larger than the gravestone at its side to Margaret Lachlan. 

 Upon its upper edge are the words MEMENTO MORI. 



The inscription is : 



N 

 HERE LYSE WILLIAM .lOHNSTO 



.fOHN MILROY, GEORGE WALKER 



WHO WAS WITHOUT SENTE 



NCE OF LAW HANGED BY MA 



.TOR WINRAM FOR THEIR ADHER 



ANCE TO SCOTLAND'S REFOR 



MATION COVENANTS NATIO 



NAL AND SOLEMN LEAGUE 



16S5 



III. — Hoddom Old Churchyard. By Mr Geoege Irving, 

 Newcastle. 



When strolling about Hoddom a few weeks ago I was told 

 that there was an old font at the old churchyard. When I got 

 there I found it was not a font but the base and socket of an old 

 cross. I found it rolled up at the back of the south wall of the 

 churchyard. It was partly imbedded in the ground, but sufficient 

 of it above ground to get a correct view of it. It is made of 

 coarse, gritty sandstone, four feet high if standing erect, and the 

 socket on the top is one foot six inches square and six inches deep. 

 The edge or rim of the socket is about seven inches thick, except 

 at the four corners, which are rounded off to five inches. A part 

 of one side of the rim has been broken off. Half-way between 

 the top and bottom of the base there is a plinth of about two 

 inches roughly worked upon the stone. 



There is a small fragment of Hoddom Cross in the Museum of 

 Antiquities in Edinburgh. Can this be the base ? It is doubtless 

 very old. The socket is calculated to hold a shaft, say ten feet 

 high. If it is part of Hoddoin Cross it is a most valuable histori- 

 cal relic, but if not it is still a valuable memento of the past. It 

 lies within a few vards of the site of the old pre-Reformation 



