stirling-1963-vol-1/05_154

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No. 127 -- ECCLESIASTICAL MONUMENTS -- No. 127
moulded border bearing, above, an inscribed plaque and,
below, a shield with helm and mantling and, for crest,
a crowned heart. The shield is charged, for Douglas:
three piles, in chief three mullets. The inscription reads
THIS MANSE WAS BUILDED AT / THE EXPENSEs OF
THE HERITOURS / OF LOGIE AND OF MR A L
DOUGLAS / MINISTER THERE ANNO D 1698 / I AND
MY HOUSE WILL SERUE / THE LORD JOSHUA 24 V
15, and on a ribbon below appear the Greek words TA
ANΩ ("The things that are above"). A modern inscription
states that this panel was removed from the old manse in
1804.
A church of Logie is first mentioned in a charter of
Simeon, bishop of Dunblane, in which its possession
is confirmed to the convent of North Berwick. ¹ This
charter is dated by Cosmo Innes to about 1178. ² Sub-
sequent mentions of the church before the Reformation
are given by Menzies Fergusson ³; but no authority can
be found for his statement that a church was built
between 1380 and 1420, and it may be simply an
erroneous inference from the architectural characteristics
of the existing remains. In 1596 Dame Margaret Hume,
prioress of North Berwick, resigned the convent's
surviving properties, including Logie Church, to the
King for "the sustentatione of the minister serving the
cure thairat and utheris godlie usis". ⁴ The post-
Reformation history of the parish is also given by
Menzies Fergusson. ⁵ The supposed dedication to St. Serf
appears to rest on no better foundation than that the
miracle connected with this saint's ram is said to have
been performed at Athren (Airthrey), which is in this
parish. ⁶

TOMBSTONES. The most interesting stone in this
graveyard is a hog-back (Pl. 42 A), which lies SE. of
the church. It is 5 ft. 8 in. long and tapers, at ground
level, from a breadth of 14 1/2 in. at the head to 8 in. at
the foot. On the lower side it stands 1 ft. 6 in. above the
ground. The ridge has been flattened to a breadth of
10 in. at the head, the flattened area tapering to 3 1/2 in.
at the foot. The N. side shows traces of ornamentation
representing tiles. Another hog-back was turned out of
the graveyard about 1907 and a fragment of it, found and
replaced in 1927. ⁷ is probably the rounded lump now
set as a headstone at the N. end of Row 6 (infra).
In addition, there are nearly a hundred stones bearing
dates earlier than 1707, and mostly falling within the last
quarter of the 17th century. Of these only the following
thirteen, of which i, ix, x, xi and xiii are headstones and
the remainder recumbent, show more than initials and
a date: (i) Dated 1704, commemorating WALTAR ROB
IN BALUHARN. (ii) Dated 1694, referring in a marginal
inscription to IAMES ANDERSON IANET ALEXANDER
and their children. This stone also bears the initials
IH GG and IH IA with the mottoes SOLA VIRTUS
NOBILITAT ("Only virtue ennobles") and MEMENTO
MORI ("Remember Death"). (iii) Dated 1691, com-
memorating IAMES [?F]ORMA[?R] / IONET BRYCE.
(iv) Date 1694, commemorating WA IA / IOHN
ALEXANDER / ELIZABETH CAM/PBELL IULY 27 / 1722.
(v) A duplicate of (iv) but better cut and in better
preservation. (vi) Dated 1704, commemorating [IA]MES
LEISHMAN. (vii) Dated 1623, commemorating
[T]HOMAS HENDERSONE / MARION CHRISTIE. (viii) /
Dated 1623, commemorating MARGRIT HENDER/SONE
and, in later lettering, IF MA / RF AH. (ix) Dated 1691,
commemorating IOHN DIKSON / HELEN GARRON.
(x) Duplicate of (ix) except for spelling DICKSON and
addition of ID KK. (xi) Duplicate of (ix). (xii) Dated
1700, and bearing a marginal inscription, partly illegible,
commemorating an ALEXANDER together with
CHRISTIAN GALLAUAY HIS WIFE AND THEIR
CHILDREN. Their initials HA CG also appear. (xiii)
Dated 1705, commemorating IH AE with inscription
below HERE LYES THE CORPS OF ALEXR HENDERSONE /
AND IONET GILLESPIE HIS SPOUS THE STON / AND
GROUND BELONGS TO JOHN HENDERSONE.
The remainder may be listed summarily. They occur
in the parallel rows of monuments that run from N. to S.
across the S. part of the graveyard, and in the list below
they are given in their order, row by row, the rows in
turn being taken from W. to E. All except those marked
(H), for headstone, are recumbent slabs.
Row 1 (westernmost). 1698; PM MG. (H) 1698; IA
II / IA IA. (H) 1691; HA CG.
Row 2. [1] 664; IH / IC.
Row 3. (H) 1698; IA II /IA IA, duplicating one in
Row 1. (H) 1691; RH / MR. 1694; IT MA / MT MN.
Row 4. 1691; AA / ML. (H) 1693; RA / EH. (H) 1690;
TC MH / IC LH. (H) 1690; IK / IG. (H) 1690; IC / IK.
1704; IK IM / IK [?]. 1680; IK KA / IM / IK. (H)
1691; A [?]. (H) 1687; VA AH. (H) 1691; IS KE.
Row 5. (H) 1672; WR IF. Stone i (supra). (H) 1677.
1694; TM MH / RM MF, or ME. 1691; IH MC, with
later additions. 1694; IH / GG divided by an empty
sunk shield. These initials, and a motto, are repeated
on Stone ii. Stone ii (supra). 1698; IH IA with defaced
or empty shield. These initials and accompanying
mottoes are repeated on Stone ii.
Row 6. Fragment of hog-backed stone (supra). (H)
1672; IE IC. 1623; illegible. 1694; RK EF / IK IM.
(H) 1691.
Row 7. 1694; IK IT. (H) 1691; AG MR.
Row 8. (H) 16 [?9] I AW / MF. 1691; illegible. 1698;
TC MM / AC MS. (H) 1677; RC / IS / IR AC. (H) 1707;
IH MH. (H) 1691; WB HK / IB MW. (H) [I] 691;
RC IC. Stones iii, iv, v (supra). (H) 169 [?3]; IA MW
above date and IA [?] below; on back IA MG with
illegible inscription. 1694; IA IM / TA EA [?]. 1694;
repeating the last, but with HA legible at the end of
the third line and MG at the end of the fifth.

1Carte Monialium de Northberwic, Bannatyne Club, 6
(No. 5).
2 Ibid., xxx.
3 Op. cit., i, 11 ff.
4 Carte Monialium de Northberwic, xv.
5 Op. cit., i, 20 ff.
6 Wyntoun, Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, ii, 40 (The
Historians of Scotland, iii).
7 P.S.A.S., lxii (1927-8), 104 f.

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