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interview with James VI. in 1595, he incurred the
royal displeasure, and being decoyed to London in
1606, was committed to the Tower, where he was
detained four years. He died at Sedan in 1622.
Alexander Henderson, minister of Leuchars, and
afterwards of Edinburgh, prepared the National
Covenant, subscribed at Edinburgh in February
1638, and was moderator of the celebrated General
Assembly held at Glasgow the same year. In
1643 he represented the Scottish Church at the
Assembly of Divines held at Westminster ; he died
in 1646.
In 1858 Mr William Drummond erected in the
cemetery a monumental statue of James Ren wick,
the last of the Scottish martyrs. An itinerant
preacher in the southern counties, he in 1685 pul)-
licly protested against the accession of James VII.,
and was consequently declared a rel^el. Captured
in January 1688, he was executed in the following
February; he was only twenty -six. Renwick's
statue presents the likeness of a descendant of his
family.
On the Ladies' Rock, and within the cemetery en-
closure, Mr Drummond erected in 1859 a group of
marl)le statuary, surmounted by a cupola, in honour
of Margaret Wilson, one of the two Wigtown martyrs.
This devoted person suffered death by drowning dur-
ing the persecution of James VII. ; she died in May
1685 in her eighteenth year. The martyr is repre-