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THE TOMBS OF THE MARTYRS.
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• The name of the man by whose information the women were
arrested is remembered, and his memory execrated still ; his
descendants are reduced to poverty ; not long since one of them,
getting into an altercation with a person in Wigtown, was thus
taunted publicly — "I wadna like to have had a forbear who
betrayed the martyrs ; I wadna be com'd of sic folk ! "
In Wigtown churchyard stand three tombstones ; on them are
these inscriptions : —
Front of
Tombstone
No. I.
Erect.
Back of
Tombstone
No. 1.
HERE LIES MARGARAT LACHLANE
WHO WAS BY UNJUST LAW SENTENCED
TO DTE BY LAGG STRACHANE WINRAME
AND GRAME AND TYED TO A STAKE WITH
IN THE FLOOD FOR HER*
ME MENTO MORI
* ADHERENCE TO SCOTLAND'S REFORMATION
COVENANTS NATIONAL AND SOLEMN LEAGUE
AGED 63. 1685.
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LET EARTH AND STONE STILL WITNESS BEARE
THEIR LYES A VIRGINE MARTYR HERE.
MURTHERD FOR OWNING CHRIST SUPREAME
HEAD OF HIS CHURCH AND NO MORE CRIME
BUT NOT ABJURING PRESBYTVRY,
AND HER NOT OUNING PRELACY
THEY HER CONDEM'D BY UNJUST LAW
OF HEAVEN NOR HELL THEY STOOD NO AW
WITHIN THE SEA TY'D TO A STAKE
SHE SUFFERED FOR CHRIST JESUS SAKE
THE ACTORS OF THIS CRUEL CRIME
WAS LAGG. STRACHAN. WINRAM. AND GRHAME.
NEITHER YOUNG YEARS, NOR YET OLD AGE
COULD STOP THE FURY OF THERE' RAGE.
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Tombstone
No. 3.
Erect.
ME MENTO MORI.
HERE LYSE WILLIAM JOHNSTON JOHN
MILROY GEORGE WALKER WHO WAS WITH
OUT SENTENCE OF LAW HANGED BY MAJOR
WINRAM FOR THEIR ADHERENCE TO SCOT
LANDS REFORMATION COVENANTS NATION
AL AND SOLAM LEAGWE
1685.
At the time that Mr. Wodrow was writing his well-known
book, a daughter of " Margarat Lachlane" still survived, and she
told the Eev. Mr. Campbell, minister of Kirkinner, that in a