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completed. At a meeting held at Crawfordjohn, October 6th, 

 1711, it is recorded: — "The several correspondences were 

 appointed to take a copy of the epitaphs engraven upon the 

 martyrs' gravestones in their several bounds to be brought to the 

 next general meeting." Two years later there is another notice. 

 It is :— 



" Crawfordjohn, October 26, 1713. 

 " The several correspondences are appointed to take care to get a true 

 list of the martyrs who were shot or otherwise killed without process of 

 .law, their names, abodes, time and place of their deaths, who killed tliem, 

 and any other particulars about them, with a true duplicate of the elegies 

 on all the gfuvestones against the 1st of January, to be sent to Edinburgh." 



The result of these labours of the societies appeared in a volume 

 without publisher's names or place of publication. It is simply 

 said to be 



" Printed in the Year mdccxiv." 



and entitled : " A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives 

 of Jesus Christ ; or, The Last Speeches and Testimonies of those 

 who suffered for the trutli in Scotland since the year 1G80." The 

 volume closes with the usual finis, and a list of errata prefaced 

 by a candid confession that the book is not immaculate. 



" Good Reader, — There being several Mistakes of the Press in this 

 Impression, too many to bear any Reasonable Apology ; 'tis hoped thy 

 Candor and Ingenuity will pardon the smaller, and tliy Pen amend tlie 

 greater which mar or alter the .sense, a List whereof follows." 



After this list come six pages with double columns in small 

 brevier type. The six pages begin : — 



"To fill up the Vacancy of some Pages, 'tis conceived, that it will 

 be neither impertinent to the subject nor unacceptable to the Reader to 

 insert the following etitaphs or Inscriptions that are upon the tombs or 

 GRAVE-ST0NE.S of the Martyrs, in several Churchyards, and other Places 

 where they ly Buried. And the Reader is desired to Remember, that 

 they being mostly Composed by illiterate country people, One can not 

 reasonably Expect Neatness and Elegant Poetry in 'em, and therefore will 

 readily pardon any Harshness in the Phrase or Metre which he may meet 

 with." 



Thirty-eight of these " Epitaphs or Inscriptions " are given. Ten 

 of them are upon stones in Dumfriesshire. These ten are said 

 to be : — 



Upon the Grave-stone of Andrew Hyslop lying in Craickhaugh in 

 Eskdalenjoor, 



