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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 them, 
and any other particulars about them, with a true duplicate of the elegies 
on all the gravestones 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 mMpccxIv.” 
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 truth in Scotland since the year 1680.” The 
volume closes with the usual Fryis, 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 thy Pen amend the 
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 EPITAPHS or Inscriptions that are upon the TomMBs or 
GRAVE-STONES 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 
Eskdalemoor, 
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