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Eccles (Parish) Eccles (Parish) Continued a circular expansion 1 foot 6 inches in diameter, with a cross, & below an escutcheon, with a cheveron in the dexter & sinister chiefs, & precise middle base respectively, & a St John's Cross.
The South has an escutcheon similar to that on the west side, & beneath an ancient double-handed sword: the east a circular expansion at top, with a cross, & below, the naked figure of a man and a greyhound. Some have supposed that this monument was raised to the memory of one of the Percies of Northumberland.
The conjecture of Mr Robertson, is more probable, that it was erected after the Second crusade - which happened in 1114 - the crosses referring perhaps, to the Holy War, in honour of the father of Sir John de Soules, Lieutenant or Viceroy to John Baliol. The local tradition says that a governor of Hume Castle was killed

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