14 Transactions. 



AS L;VGG AND BLOODIE 



BRUCE COMMAN'D 



WE WERE HUNG UP BY 



HELLISH HAND 



AND THUS THEIR FURIO 



US RAGE TO STAY 



WE DYED NEAR KIRK 



OF IRON-GRAY 



HERE NOW IN PEACE 



SWEET REST WE TAKE 



ONCE MURDEE'D for 



RELIGEONS SAKE. 



Besides these mottoes in verse, says the Cloud of Witnesses, 

 there are in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright " several other monu- 

 ments, both in churchyards and open fields, the mottoes whereof 

 are in prose, intimating that they died for their adherence to the 

 Covenants and work of reformation." 



These monuments are : — 



" In the churchyard, Kirkcudbright," where '• lyes John 

 Hallume." 



" In the churchyard, Kirkandrews, parish of Borgue," where 

 " lyes Robert M'Whae." 



" In the churchyard, Girthon," on which it is said, " Within 

 this tomb lyes the corpse of Robert Lennox." 



In the Muir of Auchincloy, Girthon parish, where " lies 

 Robert Ferguson." 



" On Kirkconnel Hill, Tongland parish," where " lies James 

 Clement." 



" In the churchyard, Kells," where " lyes Adam Macwhan." 



"In the churchyard, Crossmichael," where "lyes William 

 Graham." 



The inscriptions upon these fourteen gravestones are all in the 

 first edition of the Cloud of Witnesses, issued in 1714, so that the 

 fourteen must at least have been erected before that year. 



There are three other stones whose inscriptions first appear 

 in the third edition of the Cloud of Witnesses, issued in 1730. 

 They are : — 



" A gravestone in the churchyard of Balmaghie," where " lyes 

 George Short." 



" A stone in the churchyard of Twynholm," where " lyes 

 Andrew M' Robert." 



