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Grave chastity a widow's life,
We'll not find such another
In Haddington as Marion Gray
Who here doth lie till the Doomsday."
A more ambitious monument commemorates William Seton, son
of the two preceding, and Provost of the burgh. He is described
in a lengthened Latin panegyric as descended from the House of
Seton, of Northrig, and more remotely from the noble family of the
name. His epitaph is as follows :—
" Memorial sacrum Gulielmi Seton, natalibus hujus urbis Hadinse
cives ingeuui & honesti ; prosapia autem e vetustissima & nobilissima
gente Setona oriundi; recta quippe serie, ex faniilia Setona de
Northrig, jure connubii cum illius prsedii hserede unica, cognomine
Sinclara, per atavum suuui Gulielmum Seton, familiae Setonae
jn-incipis nepotem, olim acquisiti, originem suam ducentis ; prsefec-
tura hujus civitatis, per decennium continuum, fideliter, prudenter
& moderate functi, ejusdemque, ad suprema regni comitia, dele-
gatione sa^pius honorati ; officio tabellarii equestris in hac urbe, per
37 annos, diploniate regio propositi ; ingenii & morum humanitate,
virtute & industria, omnibus, injuria autem & dolo nemini, noti ;
ab avaritia, vindicta, injustitia & in concives odio prorsus alieni;
pie tandem, & qua Christianum decet, animi tranquillitate, anno
ffitatis suffi 57. Vita functi ; monumeutu.m hoc, moeroris & conju-
galis sui desiderii signum & indicium, Agneta Black, ipsius conjugio
nunc viduata, extruendum curavit ; locumque simul hunc, cansellis
niunitum in quo reconduntur ossa & cineres Alexandri Seton,
scholee publise hujus urbis quondam moderatoris ejus patris,
Mariotae Gray matris, Alexandri, Gulielmi, & Mariotae, trium
ipsius liberorum, dicto connubio, cum Agneta conjuge sua, procrea-
torum ut sibi pariter & mariti sui agnatis cognatisque cum fatis
cesserint, sepulturam commodam prsebeat, auctoritate parochiali,
religiosum fecit. Anno 1682."
Within the church a monument with a Latin inscription com-
memorates John Sleich, Provost of Haddington, who died 26th
January, 1686, aged ninety; also his son John, Provost of Had-
dington, who died 12th December, 1689, aged fifty-eight. Also
John Sleich, Master of Arts, son of the preceding, a magistrate of
the burgh, who died in his thirty-fifth year.