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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOULI'S MONUMENT | Soulis' Monument Soulis' Monument Soulis' Monument Soulis' Monument Soulis' Monument Soulis' Monument |
Revd. [Reverend] James Aitken Mr A Hamilton Town Clerk Mr James Hamilton Name cut on the Monument Patterson's Hist.[History] of Ayrshire McKay's Hist.[History] of Kilmarnock |
018 | [Continued] "Which gives its name to One of the "Streets. It formerly [Consisted] of a "rude stone pillar About eight or nine "feet high. On the top of which was "fixed a Small gilded Cross. In 1825 the "inhabitants of [this] quarter of the "town raised a Subscription with the "View of renewing the Monument, "which had greatly become dilapidated, "a handsome fluted pillar has "Accordingly been erected in the Same "Spot, in a niche of the Wall which "Surrounds the high Church, fronting "the Street bearing the inscription. " To the Memory of Lord Soulis' A.D. 1444 "Erected by subscription A.D. 1825 " The days of Old to Mind I Call "Tradition stated that Lord Soulis' was "an English Nobleman and that he was "Killed by an Arrow from a Cross-bow of "One of the Boyd family, McKay in his "history of Kilmarnock, gives the " [tradition] at full length, and "mentions in evidence of the SKirmish, " which it is said to have taken place "between the Contending parties, that "in 1825" (this should be 1845 "according) to McKays history of "Kilmarnock [11YER] Mr Clark farmer of "Knockinlaw, when Cutting a drain "near the spot where this encounter is "Said to have happened, found at a "Considerable depth beneath the "Surface. A Sword of rather Ancient "Appearance, but whether it Was One "of those used in the SKirmish we have "described, is a matter for Conjecture". Paterson's History of Ayrshire. |
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