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PARISH OF LINTON. 249
the preceding Assembly, condemning the " Marrow of Modern
Divinity."
James Hunter Wright, who was killed by falling from the steeple
of Jedburgh, on the 17th October, 1765, has his tombstone inscribed
thus : —
" Stop, traveller, as you go by,
1 once had life and breath;
But falling from a steeple high
I swiftly passed through death.
" Take you example by my fate.
And be by me advised ;
Eepent before it be too late,
Lest you be thus surprised."
PARISH OF LINTOK
The choir of the old parish church formed the burial-place of the
ancient family of Somerville. Eoger de Somerville, Baron of
Whichnour, in England, and one of the barons who procured
Magna Charta from King John, having been compelled to flee
from England, found refuge at Linton Tower; on his death, he
was buried in the choir. There too was interred his son William,
who received from William the Lion the lands of Linton, for
destroying a wild animal which had committed serious ravages in
the district. Above the principal door of the church was set a
stone, sculptured with the representation of a man on horseback in
full armour, with a falcon on his arm, in the act of thrusting his
lance down the throat of a large animal ; it was removed in 1858.
There is a tradition that the stone was originally inscribed thus : —
"The Avode Laird of Lariestone,
Slew the wode worm of Wormieston,
And won all Linton parochin."
Walter de Somerville, third Baron of Linton, joined the standard