40 Report of the Meetings for 1892. 



When Captain Dunlop sold the estate some years afterwards, 

 Gilbert Burns was appointed factor in 1804 to Lord Blantyre, 

 and he removed to Grants Braes, where he resided till his death 

 8th April 1827. He was an elder of the Parish Church of 

 Haddington, and seems to have attended there until within 

 seven months of his death. 



Mr Gilbert Burns of Knockmarock Lodge, Chapelizoid, 

 County Dublin, left in 1877 £50 to the Minister and Kirk 

 Session of the parish — the interest of which was to be expended 

 in keeping the ground in order. His wish was that the sod 

 should be kept clean, trim, and free from coarse weeds, but 

 that no garden flowers, shrubs, or trees should be planted in 

 it. The headstone and railinj^' should be painted when 

 necessary. The residue of the interest to be divided among 

 residenters of the parish, at the discretion of the Minister 

 and Kirk Session. 



A "through" stone to the memory of William Cairns of 

 Pilmore claimed some attention, he being supposed to be an 

 ancestor of the late Lord Cairns, Lord Chancellor of Great 

 Britain. The Coat of Arms seems to consist of shield divided 

 per pale ; on the sinister division of which are three birds, 

 maybe martlets or Cornish choughs. On the dexter division 

 are two boars' heads at top, one at bottom, and a handled 

 knife between. The Coat of Arms on the stone is the same as 

 appears above the doorway at Pilmore House, in this parish, 

 where they have the addition of an interwoven monogram 

 consisting of the initials W. C, A. B., and the date 1624. 



A third and similar Coat of Arms is built into the wall of 

 the cow byre at Kirklands Farm, but here the "Cornish 

 choughs" and ''boars' heads" of the "field" have been 

 prominently brought out by the application of a coal-tar brush 

 to them. [Pilmore House and lands, and the farm of 

 Kirklands now belongs to the heirs of the late R. B. Baird 

 of Courance, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire.] 



The marble tablets in the Eaglescarnie burial gi^ound were 

 examined, as was also the old hearse, the history of which 

 was briefly told by Mr Wilson. 



Mr Brown of Coalstoun and Mr Lindsay of Eaglescarnie 

 were appointed, 22nd April 1783, to purchase this hearse, which 

 they did before 1784, for £37 14s; the old hearse, which had 

 been bought in 1723, being then sold for 16s. 



