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on Back -- ADHERENCE TO SCOTLAND'S REFORMATION
COVENANTS, NATIONAL AND SOLEMN LEAGUE
AGED 63 -- 1685.

The third stone measures 2'.4" in height and
2'.5" in breadth. The inscription upon it runs

MEMENTO TO MORI
HERE LYSE WILLIAM JOHNSTON, JOHN
MILROY, GEORGE WALKER, WHO WAS
WITHOUT SENTENCE OF LAW HANGED BY MAJOR
WINRAM FOR THEIR ADHERENCE TO SCOT-
-LAND'S REFORMATION COVENANTS, NATION-
-AL AND SOLAM LEAGWE. 1685.

A large table stone, the inscription upon which
has been recut commemorates & enumerates the virtues of Archibald
Hamilton Minister of Sorbie, Wigtown and Bangor
who died 29 June 1695.
Near the centre of the upper end of the grave yard
lies a large table stone 7'.5" long, 2'.9" broad
inscribed around the edge HEIR LYES
PETRICK COLTRUN LET PROVIST OF WIGTOWNE WHO
DECEAST THE 1 DAY OF MARCH 1671. In the centre
of the slab is a shield ornamented with the
balance and scales, an hour glass and an
open book while immediately beneath are the
skull and cross bones with, at the lower end,
the spade and shovel.
There is a portion of a mediaeval slab bearing
part of an inscription in black letter
around the margin lying in the burial ground
of a family of the name of Hannay WSW [West South West]

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