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PARISH OF LONGFOKMACUS. 229
Tombstones commemorate four parocliial incun}beiits, viz.: —
James Orr, died 1G94; Gilbert Laurie, A.M., died September, 1727,
aged seventy-five; Eobert Waugh, died 23rd February, 1756,
aged seventy- two ; and Philip Eedpath, translator of Buetliius's
" Consolations of Philosophy," and editor of the " Border History "
composed by his brother Philip, who died 18th j\Iay, 1788, aged
sixty-eight.
PAPJSH OF LAUDEE.
A monument in the parish church commemorates Alexander
Lauder, Bishop of Dunkeld, son of Sir Alan Lauder of Haltoun,
who died on the 11th October, 1440. In the churchyard tomb-
stones celebrate the ministerial gifts and faithfulness of the Eev.
James Ford, who died on the 24th September, 1810, aged eighty-
seven; also the Eev. Peter Cosens, who died 20th August, 1845,
aged sixty-four, — both incumbents of the cure.
The following inscription formerly celebrated Alexander Thomson,
whose remains were the first which were deposited in this place of
sepulture : —
" Here lyes interred an honest man,
Who did this churchyard first lie in ;
This monument shall make it known
That he was the first laid in this ground.
Of mason and of masonrie,
He cutted stones right curiously.
To heaven we hope that he is gone,
Where Christ is the chief corner-stone."
PAEISH OF LONGFOEMACUS.
A tombstone commemorates the Eev. Eobert Monteith, minister
of the parish, who distingiii^ihed himself as a volunteer during the