Grampian Club > Memorials of the Strachans, baronets of Thornton, Kincardineshire, and of the family of Wise of Hillbank, formerly Wyse of Lunan, in the County of Forfar

Memorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise.
bed, in her twenty-fifth year ; and an elegant marble tomb
was by her sorrowing husband erected to her memory in
the family aisle in the old parish church of Marykhk.
The tomb is thus inscribed : —
Epice.diuiu thuL-iiodicuni . . mumoriam t;einiiue lectissiuue,
Dominte Elizabetlu^,' Forbesai, DoiuiiuTe a Thornton, a-teniitatis candi-
date . . . nieritoruni . . . nissima, puerpera, innuaturo lain
. . repta est, dum annum ;etatis vigesimuui
([uintuni agebat, die decinio lauuarij . . Gl : Ciijns i'ragiant-
issinue memori», licet . . . . de nionunientis onini lere peren-
uioribus abunde satis litatiini sit, hoc tarn . . niagnifico
niausoleo, parentau' dum curavit conjunx ipsius pullatus. D. lacobus
Stvahanus a Thorntoniie, eques auratus.
8iste, viator, babes summi monunienta ....
Virtutis tumulum, pieridnmq' vid
Omnis una fuit brevis ha3C quam con ....
Lux nuper patrire . . levis i;mb . . .
Aurea si tantas fudere crepuscula . .
Luxisset, quanto sidere
Quanta fuit pietas quam stemmatis
Euthea mens roseus quani sine sente sinus.
Quantus et oris honos ; Phcenix vixitq' cadittj',
Qualem non poterant reddcre . . . dccem.
At mutura polio cecidit Christoq' ; (piid . . .
Ignavi sajcla numerant, facta boni.
Mors ipsa non separadit.
After the forfeiture, the barony and lands of Thomtoii