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60 EDINBURGHSHIRE.
at Mayloole, Ayrshire. His " Harmony of the Gospels " appeared
in 1756, and his "Truth of Gospel History" in 1763. In 1769
he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly, and in the same
year was translated to Jedburgh. In 1772 he became minister
of Lady Tester's church, Edinburgh; he was subsequently pre-
ferred to the Old church. He published in 1795 a translation
of the Apostolical Epistles. He died on the 13th January, 1800.
A handsome mausoleum commemorates Alexander Murray, Lord
Henderland, a senator of the College of Justice, who died on the
16th March, 1795. On this monument are inscribed the names of
William Murray of Henderland, eldest son of the preceding, who
died 3rd October, 1854, and of Sir John Archibald Murray, second
son of Lord Henderland, who after holding the offices of Kecorder
of the Great Eoll, and Lord Advocate, was raised to the Bench as
Lord Murray in 1839. Lord Murray died on the 7th March,
1859. On this monument is also commemorated Mary, wife of
Lord Murray and daughter of William Rigby, Esq., of Oldfield Hall,
Cheshire, who died on the 2nd October, 1861. Lord and Lady
Murray, it is recorded, evinced such unwearied zeal in doing good,
that their departure was felt as a general loss.
John Mason, " Student of Physic," who died in 1763, at the age
of twenty-seven, is commemorated in these lines : —
" Death, Grave, why so severe.
E'en youth must see
Thy looks austere ;
This young man did by living die,
By death he lives eternally."
These lines are inscribed on the tombstone of Jacobina Curtis,
wife of Archibald Lumsdaine, who died in 1809 : —
" Hark from the tomb a solemn sound !
' Prepare, prepare,' it cries,
' To drop your body in the dust —
Your soul to mount the skies.' "
More ambitious verse is inscribed on the gravestone of Eliza
Dunbar, wife of Captain Tod, who died in 1804 : —