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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PLACE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP'S MURDER 1679 Bishop Sharp murdered here.
Bishop Sharp murdered here.
James Clement Farmer Easter Clatto
Andrew Carstairs Farmer Tongues of Clatto.
011 [situation] About 1 3/4 miles E.S.E. [East South East] from Blebocraigs.
The place where Archbishop Sharp was murdered is in a small wood on Magus Muir, and marked by a grave stone erected to the memory of those who perpetrated the deed; by the admirers of the reformation; thinking the men that were executed were innocent. The stone is bearing date 1709 the rest of the inscription is effaced.

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36 Parish of St. Andrews Plan 11B Trace 4

[Note - appended to object name] G. [German] Text.

[Note] The Archbishop's remains were buried in the parish church of St. Andrews and a handsome marble monument is erected against the inner wall of the church over his grave the work of a Dutch artist. The Inscription on the monument is the Following.
D. O. M.
Under this lofty mausoleum are laid the precious remains of a most pious prelate a most precedent senator and a most holy martyr. The most Reverend father in God. James Sharp D.D. Archbishop of St. Andrews Primate of all Scotland etc. whom, the University as a professor of philosophy and theology the Church as a presbyter a doctor and a ruler: Scotland as a chief minister both of her Civil and ecclesiastical affairs Britain as the adviser of the restoration of Charles II [Second], and of monarchy: the Christian world as the restorer of Episcopacy and good order in Scotland. Scotland, Saw, acknowledged and admired and whom notwithstanding all this a band of nine parricides through the fury of fanaticism in the light of noon-day and in the vicinity of his metropolitan city cruelly murdered with many wounds from pistols swords and daggers while his eldest daughter and domestics wounded & weeping sought to protect him and when he himself had fallen on his knees to implore mercy in their behalf. On the 3rd of May 1679 and in the 61st year of his age.

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[parricides] murderers of a parent or family member, is confirmed in Lyon's history of St. Andrews

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