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Here lyes John Bell of Whytesyde, who was barbourously shot to 
death in 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 cruel Lag would not let him survive. 
This martyre sought some time to recommend 
His soul to God before his dayes did end. .-. 
The tyrant said, What, devil, ye’ve prayed enough 
This long seven years on mountains and in cleugh ;— 
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 £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 memory of Rev. Samuel Rutherford, minister of the parish 
of Anwoth. He was appointed Professor of Divinity in the University 
of St. Andrews, where he died, 1661. 
This monument was erected 1842 in admiration of his eminent 
abilities, extensive learning, ardent piety, ministerial faithfulness, and 
distinguished public labours in the cause of civil and religious liberty. 
Surely he shall not be moved for ever; the righteous shall be in ever- 
lasting remembrance.— Ps. exii. 6. 
On the reverse side there is an inscription stating that the 
monument was struck by lightning in 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 
