ar TRANSACTIONS. 
Twyse borne on earth and now is in earth’s wombe, 
Lived long a virgine, now a spotles wiff ; 
Church keepis her godlie life ; this tombe hir corps ; 
And earth hir famous name. 
Who then doth lose? Hir husband no, since heaven 
Hir Saule does gane. 
Christen Makcaddam, Lady Cardynes, depairted 16 Juny, 1628, etatis 
suae 33. 
For the convenience of readers we have introduced some punctua- 
tion marks and capitals in reproducing the epitaph ; and have so 
far modernised the spelling as to use the ordinary characters, in- 
stead fv foruandz fory. The initials of the parties are cut in 
bold characters on the stone in the following order, I being used 
for J, and C as the second initial both of M‘Clellan and M‘Cadam : 
WG MM IG MMC IG CMC 
The burial place of the M‘Cullochs of Ardwell is also in the 
church. Built into a recess in the south wall there is a stone 
bearing the crest of the Maxwells of Cardoness—a man’s head 
within two laurel branches—-and their motto, “Think on,” and 
beneath, along with other heraldic devices, the initials of Captain 
William Maxwell and his wife, Nicolas Stewart, with an intima- 
tion that the monument was rebuilt by them in 1710. This 
recess formed the doorway by which Mr Rutherford entered when 
about to ascend the pulpit, which stood against the wall on the 
west side of the doorway. 
John Bell of Arkland is commemorated by a large tablet in 
the outer wall, with a slightly mutilated Latin inscription, and a 
piece of sculpture in relief, representing the skeleton figure of 
Death bearing a scythe in one hand and discharging with the left a 
dart at a sleeping figure. It may be his wife to whom this epitaph, 
on a flat tombstone, is dedicated : 
Heir lyis Margrat Halliday, spouse to Johne Bel in Archland, who 
depairted this lyff anno 1631, Jan. 27, etatis suze 76. 
O Death, I will be thy death. Now is Christ resin from ye deid, 
and is the First froot of them that beleive. 
These were no doubt relatives of John Bel of Whiteside, the 
martyr, whose tragic story is told on a neighbouring stone. He 
was a step-son of Viscount Kenmure, and his mother was a 
M‘Culloch of Ardwell. The inscription over his grave is as 
follows : 
