Religion & morality > Cloud of witnesses, for the royal prerogatives of Jesus Christ, or, The last speeches and testimonies of those who suffered for the truth in Scotland, in the years 1681-1688, with an appendix, containing the Queensferry paper, Torwood excommunications, &c

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EPITAPHS.
These faithful witnesses were found,
And murdered upon the ground.
Their bodies in this grave do ly,
Their blood for vengeance yet doth cry :
This may a standing witness be
For Presbytry ’gainst Prelacy.
Inscription on the monument at Airsmoss, lying upon the bodies of them that
fell there, July 20th, 1680, namely, the Rev. Richahd Cameron, Michael,
Cameron, John Hamilton, John Gemmel, James Gray, Robert Dick,
John Fuller, Robert Paterson, Thomas Watson, &c.
Halt, curious passenger, come here, and read :
Our souls triumph with Christ, our glorious head.
In self-defence, we murder’d here do ly,
To witness ’gainst this nation’s perjury.
Inscription on a gravestone in the church-yard of Strathaven, on the corpse
of William Paterson, who lived in the parish of Cambusnethan, and
John Barrie, in Evandale, anno 1685.
Here lye two martyrs, severally who fell
By Capitain Inglis and by bloody Bell.
Posterity shall know they 're shot to death
As sacrifices unto Popish wrath.
Inscription on the stone lying at Blackwood, in the parish of Lesmahagow,
upon the corpse of John Brown, who was shot by Murray, without
sentence of law, anno 1685, and buried there in the open fields.
Murray might murder such a godly Brown
But could not rob him of that glorious crown
He now enjoys. His credit, not his crime,
Was non-compliance with a wicked time.
Acrostic upon a stone lyinf. on the corpse of John Brown, who lived in the
parish of Muirkirk, and was shot by Graham of Claverhouse, at his own
door, May 1st, 1685, and lies buried there in the open fields.
I n death’s cold bed, the dusty part here lies
O f one who did the earth, as dust, despise.
H ere, in this place, from earth he took departure :
N ow he has got the garland of the martyr.
B utcher’d by Clavers and his bloody band,
R aging most rav’nously o’er all the land.
O nly for owning Christ’s supremacy,
W ickedly wrong’d by encroaching tyranny.
N othing, how near soever, he loo good
Esteem’d nor dear, for any truth, his blood.
Upon the gravestone of David Steel, in the church-yard of Lesmahagow.
David, a shepherd first, and then,
Advanced to be king of men,
Had of his graces in this quarter,
This heir a wand’rer, now a martyr ;
Who, for his constancy and zeal,
Still to the back did prove good Steel >