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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MARTYRS TOMB Martyrs Tomb John Muir Lochfergus
William Martin St Marys Isle
050 A small square tablet of stone supported upon 4 pillars, and raised about 2 1/2 feet above the earth It bears the following inscription -
This monument shall shew posterity
Two headless Martyrs underneath it doth lye
By bloody Graham were taken and surprised
Brought to this toune and afterwards were saiz'd
By unjust law were sentenced to die
Them first they hanged then headed cruelly
Captain Douglas Bruce Graham of Claverhouse
Were these that caused them be handled thus
And when they were unto the gibbet come
To stop their speech they did beat up the drum
And all because that they would not comply

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List of Names collected by Archibald Craig PE [Private] RS&M [Royal Sappers & Miners] 1st Examiner
No of Plan & Trace 50D No3

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Martyrs Tomb Tomb -- Kirkcudbright
[Signed] Archibald Craig Pe [Private] RS&M [Royal Sappers & Miners] May 1st 1848

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