Historical summary of the Roger Tenants of Coupar

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on pillars, but now level with the ground. The
inscription, which is in Latin, bears that it was
placed there by Elizabeth Lochmalonie to the
memory of her deceased husband, George
Roger, called " navclero - et - hvivs oppidi - &c."
This monument was discovered by myself.
From it certainly nothing can be learnt as to
the names or number of his issue. Yet on this
simple circumstance, which left the matter as an
unascertained possibility, has been founded the
assumption given, without reservation, that the
person whom this stone commemorates " left
one son, William, who became a prosperous
merchant in Dundee, &c." We have, however,
a better oracle, one which speaks not indeed
with less ambiguity, but whose responses are
more to be trusted. From George Roger's
own lips, delivered in articulo mortis, " giffen
wpe be his awin mouthe speikand," as ex-
pressed in his " Letter will and legacie," it
plainly appears that he left issue not " one son "
(which is obviously one of those so-called facts
made to fit in with the accidents of the indi-
vidual) but three sons and one daughter, "lawfull
bearnis procreat betwix him and bessie Loch-
malonie." 8 Their names were George, William,
8 Latter Will and Testament of George Roger, skipper bur-
gess of Dundee— Commissariot of Brechin, Vol. III., fol. 31.