30 Transactions. 



remains is in Old Englisli character, and reads — " Ilic jacet 

 Magister Alexander de Carnys . . ." Not being able to read 

 the legend upon the scroll, I sent a rubbing of it to Dr Frazer, 

 and his reading of it is — " Qui vie calcatis pedihus prece subveni- 

 atis." (You who tread on me with your feet help me with your 

 prayers.) Carnys probably died in 1422, when John Cameron 

 became Provost of Lincluden. 



A stone, which forms part of the pavement of the Aisle, and 

 lies immediately west of the corner of the side Chapel, covers a 

 grave. It has been inscribed in Old English character, but no 

 part of the inscription can now be read. 



There are two tombstones in the side Chapel besides that of 

 Cairns, and one in the Nave, of after Reformation date. Those 

 in the side Chapel have borders respectively inscribed — " Heir ■ 

 lyis • ane • honest • man • Alexander • Cooper • Mason • 1 • 5 • 8 • 8 ;" 

 and " * * ■ lyis • Robert • Cowper • Mearsone • Bwrgis • of • 

 Drowmfi-is • 161'*." That in the Nave is also inscribed round 

 the border, and on its face is a sinking as if for the reception of 

 a brass ; but being much broken, the inscription cannot be read. 



Under the east end of the Chancel is an oblong vault, roofed 

 by a plain cylindrical arch, to which access is got by a number 

 of steps descending from the floor of the Chancel. The vault 

 does not appear to have been built along with the Church. Tts 

 walls are not under but within those of the Chancel ; the charac- 

 ter of the masonry is different from that of the Church ; the space 

 in the floor of the Chancel occupied by the stair is so large as not 

 to be adapted for being closed by the usual slab, and there is 

 evidence that the vault has been secured by means of an upright 

 door at the foot of the stair, the stair itself being probably left 

 open. The vault was used by the Maxwell's as a place of sepul- 

 ture, and was probably erected by them after the Reformation 

 for that purpose. John, 8th Lord Maxwell, who was slain at the 

 battle of Dryfesands, as stated in the " Book of Carlaverock," 

 was buried in Lincluden, 30th December, 1593 ; and, according 

 to the same authority, "Dame Elizabeth Douglas died in 1637, 

 and her son Robert, 1st Earl of Nithsdale, gave her a sumptuous 

 funeral, and afterwards transported her remains to the College 

 Kirk of Lincluden, to be interred in a vault beside those of her 

 first husbaud, John, Earl of Morton." 



