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When he condemns these hellish druges
By suffrage saints shall be their judges.
The other slab lying adjacent bears also an in:
:cised inscription.
Here lyes William Welsh Pentland Martyr
for his adhereing to the word of God and
appearing for Christ's kingly goverment in
his house and the covenanted work of re:
:formation against perjury and prelacie
execute Janr. [January] 2 1667. Rev. [Revelations] 12.11
Stay Passenger Read
Here interr'd doth ly
A witnes gainst poor Scotlands' perjury
whose head once fix'd upon the bridge-port stood
proclaiming vengance for his guiltles blood.
A slab set upon end some 50' to the SE. [South East]
of the church is inscribed in relief as follows:-
"Here lyis Andrew Corsbie Mar (?chant) de:
:parted the 11 of August 1674 aetatis 77.
In the centre of the stone between the initials
AC. and HN. is a shield bearing the
merchants' emblem [sketch inserted here].
In the SE. [South East] corner stands a domed
mausoleum, the tomb of Burns, containing
a large marble bas-relief of the poet beside his
plough.

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