History and traditions of the land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns

332 LAND OF THE LINDSAYS.
" Spes " — Female figure standing erect, with right hand at breast, and left out-
stretched. An anchor and antique spade lie at her feet.
"Caeitas" (misplaced on south wall) represented in the common manner, by a
female with a child in each arm, and one at each knee.
". . . titia " (Justice), with sword, balance and scales.
" Peuden. . ." (Prudence), examining her face in a mirror, with a serpent coiled
round the left hand.
" Foetitvdo " pulling down an ornamental column, with the capital of it lying at
her feet.
" Tempeeantia" pours water from a jug into a glass. An antique jar stands on
each side of the figure.
No. V.— Pages 170, 164, 284.
Epitaphs, relating to tlie Lindsays, in various Churchyards in Angus-shire.
A good monument of native freestone, to the memory of a family of the name of
Lindsay, is built in the south wall of the church of Rescobie. Like the fine marble
tablets to the same race at Maryton and Lunan, this is uimeld from an annuity
payable by the town of Arbroath, which was especially granted for the purpose.
The canopy is supported by two pillars, with these bearings : — " Gules, a fesse
chequee arg. and az. ; in chief a mullet; in base waves proper"
" Monumcntum hoc, in memoriam suorum parentum Mr David Lindsay
Pastor de Mary-Toune : Extruendum curavit. Juxta hunc lapidem depositee
sunt reliqui«3 Dom : Henrici Lindsay quondam de Blairifedden qui obiit anno Dom :
. . setat. 72. Et uxoris ejus Alison Scrimseur familiae Scrimseur de Glasswal
quae obiit anno Dom. 1651 aetat. . . necnon filii eorum dom. Davidis Lindsay
Pastoris de Rescobie qui obiit anno Dom. 1677 aetat. 62 & ejusdem duarum conju-
gum Marjorae Lindsay filiae Lindsay de Kinnettles & Beatricis Ogilvy filiae. . . .
Ogilvy de Carsbank, quas obiit anno Dom. 1716 aetat. suae 89. Ibidem loci quoque
sepulti sunt nonnulli ejusdem Davidis liberi quorum nomina cceli injuria & prioris
cippi vetustate perierunt. — Hoc monumentuni positum fuit anno , & instau-
ratum anno 1752."
A superb marble tablet in the church of Maryton, bears the Dowhill family
arms and motto, and a long inscription to " David Lyndesius ex prisca Lyndesorum
familia de Dowhill," who was thirty-three years minister of the church of Maryton,
and the last Episcopal incumbent. He died on the 16th of September 1706, in the
sixty-second year of his age. It is also worthy of remark, that a marble tablet at
the church of Lunan is analagous in design to that at Maryton. It is erected to
the memory of Mr. Alexander Pedey, the last Episcopal clergyman of that parish,
and his wife Marjory Lindsay, who may have been a near relative — perhaps a sister
— to the parson at Maryton.
Inscription from a freestone tablet in Farnell churchyard, to the memory of
Dean Carnegy, founder of the family of Craigo, and his wife Helen, daughter of
Bishop Lindsay of Edinburgh. — (Ut sup., pp. 164, 284.) : —
" Sepulchrum M stri Davidis Carnegy de Craigo Decani Brichinen : Rectoris
hujus Ecclesiae qui primo fuit Ecclesiastes Brichinen annos 2 postea hujus ecclesiae
pastor fidelisimus annos 36 qui placide ac pie in Domino obdormivit anno Dom.