Report of Meetings for 1880, by James Hardy. 227 



the building came upon a pit of about a yard square in which. 76 

 skulls were huddled together, and a number of thigh bones cor- 

 responding to these, as if they had been removed from some 

 other situation, and deposited there. It was remarked that the 

 skulls were extraordinarily thick, and the thigh bones were ac- 

 knowledged to be longer than those of the past or present genera- 

 tion. The teeth were wonderfully perfect. Farther along the 

 passage, several complete skeletons at intervals were found, dis- 

 posed east and west. All these were conveyed to the churchyard 

 for re-interment. One of the seats in the church, on the author- 

 ity of the Session Eecords, was called the Wedderlie seat, set 

 apart for the Edgars of Wedderlie. 



In the churchyard there are no particularly old stones, except 

 some slabs that had been resuscitated, when a small portion of 

 the surface had been levelled. Several of these are of the red 

 sandstone of Greenlaw quarry. The following inscription ap- 

 pears on the stone over the grave of Thomas Henderson, 

 formerly schoolmaster of Gordon, who died January 13, 1772 : — 

 ' ' Ah lie was great in body & in mind 

 A loving Husband & a Father kind 

 As he most men Excided in his Stature 

 So he Exceled in his Literature 

 But although he is gone and greatly mist 

 God's good will be done we hope he is blest" 

 For a list of the ministers of Gordon, extracted from Dr Hew 

 Scott's ** Fasti Ecclesiee Scoticanse," I am indebted to our Presi- 

 dent, Mr Watson. The church was dedicated to St. Michael, 

 the Archangel, and previous to the Eeformation belonged to the 

 Abbey of Kelso. 



^ Archibald Fairbarne, reader from 157i to 1585. 



Thomas Storie, removed from Bassendean, 1609-1625. 



Francis CoUace, A.M., 1625-1647. 



Norman Leslie, A.M., 1647-1657. 



John Hardie, A.M., 1659-1662. {deprived). 



James Straiten, A.M., 1682. 



John Findlay, 1682-1685. 



Thomas Mabane, A.M., 1685-1689. (deprived). 



John Hardie, A.M., M.D. [restored), 1690-1707. 



David Brown, A.M., 1708-1726. 



John Bell, 1727-1800. 



Robert Lundie, 1801-1807. 



Walter Morison, 1807-1814. 



David William Gordon, 1814-1824. 



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