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remains is in Old English character, and reads—‘ Hie jacet 
Magister Alewander 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—‘‘ Que me calcatis pedibus prece subveni- 
ates.” (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 ° 
Drowmfris : 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. Its 
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 Lineluden, 30th December, 1593 ; and, according 
to the same authority, ‘Dame Elizabeth Douglas died in 1637, 
and her son Robert, lst 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.” 
