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Transcriber's notes

check line 2 - unsure of second word in brackets - it is not the usual 'photos'
5 lines from bottom - last word is not clear, but it is 'Lawes' in the 'Seventh Report with Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Dumfries' (1920).

Transcription

[Page] 136
[Continued from page 135]

of the fort and the ramparts are formed of earth
& stone, the upcrest of the trenches. (Plan & secs. [sections])
This is the first fort with more than a single
trench that I have met with for months.

Tinwald Churchyard
Some 35 ft. [feet] to the N. [North] of Tinwald church lies a
a table stone of red sandstone 5ft. [feet] 10 ins. [inches] in
length by 3ft. [feet] in breadth Inscribed
Here lyes the corps of John
Corbet who dyed the 17 of
March 1706 and of his age
63 years who was taken
in the year 1684 by a parti
of Claverhous his troupe
and was banished by the
wicked counsell of Scotland
to East Jarsey 1685 and
returned in the year 1687
and at right angles to the foregoing :-
This ston let speake when speech is from me gone
How God me liedd when I was far from home
Banisht I was for Covenanted cause
And none complyance with their wicked Lawes
God whom I servd made me there firme to stand
Brought back again unto my native land
My sober walke in each place of aboad
Made me belovd of all that loved God