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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
COVENANTER'S GRAVE [Ecclesiamagirdle Chapel] Covenanters Grave William Dow. Farmer. Glenearn.
Mr. Martin Schoolmaster Dron
110 [Situation] In the east side of the Grave yard of Ecclescamagirdle Chapel
This name applies to a common flat gravestone in the old chapel yard at Ecclesiamagirdle; Tradition asserts that the "Martyr" Thomas Small was shot at the Deugh, a Kind of opening in the Ochills about ¼ mile west of the chapel yard. The shape of the stone with the inscription on it are shewn below.
"Here lies one virtuous Husbandman Thomas Small who died for Religion, covenant King & Country The 1st Sept. [September] 1645 Aged 58. The letters T.S. & E.D. with the Kind of heart between them are supposed to be the Initials of the "Martyr" & his spouse.

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Ph [Parish] Dron. (Det.) [Detached] -- Sheet 110 No. 5. Trace 4.

[Diagram/drawing of headstone with inscription:]

HIR LYIS ANE VIR
TOUS HUSBAND:
MAN THOMAS SMAL
WHO DIED FOR
T [Heart symbol] W
E [Heart symbol] D
RELIGION COVENA
NT KING AND CO
UNTRIE THE 1 OF
SEPTEMBER 1645
HIS AGE 58.
MEMENTO MORI

In the old churchyard at Ecclesiamagirdle there is
the grave of a Covenanter Killed in these times
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Perthshire p. [page] 864

[Page signed] Thomas Dudgeon Sergt. R.E. [Sergeant Royal Engineers]

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