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Here lyes John Bell of Whytesyde, who was barbourously sliot to 

 death iu the paroch of Tongland, at the command of Grier of Lag. 

 Anno 1685, 



This monument shall tell posterity 



That blessed Bell of "Whitesyde here doth ly, 



Who at command of bloody Lag was shot, 



A Murther strange, which should not be forgot. 



Douglas of Morton did him quarters give, 



Yet ciuel Lag would not let him survive. 



This martjTe sought some time to recommend 



His soul to God before his dayes did end. ■ 



The tyrant s;ud, What, devil, ye've prayed euough 



This long seven yeai-s on mouutaius and in cleugh j 



So instantly caus'd him, with other four, 



Be shot to death upon Kirkconnel Moor. 



So thus did end the lives of these deare saints 



For there adherance to the covenants. 



Small stones in the churchyard commemorate Archibald 

 Faulds and Thomas Irving, servants at Bardarroch, who had ac- 

 companied their employer — no doubt the Captain "William 

 Maxwell above referred to — " in Flanders and Germany during 

 the wars of the glorious King William." 



The party next proceeded to Rutherford's monument, passing 

 on the way Rutherford's Well. The monument is a granite 

 obelisk, erected on the summit of Boreland Hill in 1842, at a cost 

 of c£200, raised partly by subscription and partly by a collection 

 taken at a sermon preached on the site of the monument by Rev. 

 Dr Cook of Belfast in 1838. It is 60 feet in height, with a 7 feet 

 square base, and bears on its southern face the inscription : 



To the memorj' of Eev. Samuel Eutherford, minister of the parish 

 of Auwoth. He was appointed Professor of Divinity in the University 

 of St. Audi'ews, where he died, 1661. 



This monument was erecteil 1842 in admiration of his eminent 

 abilities, extensive learning, ardeut piety, ministerial faithfulness, and 

 distinguished public laboui-s iu the cause of civil and religious liberty. 

 Surely he shall not be moved for ever ; the righteous shall be in ever- 

 lasting remembrance. — Ps. cxii. 6. 



On the reverse side there is an inscrijition stating that the 

 monument was struck by lightning iu 1847, and rebuilt in 1851. 

 In the latter year a conductor was added, which now bears trace 

 against the granite of many a discharge of the electric fluid down 

 the side of the monument. A splendid view was here obtained of 



