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300 DUMFRIESSHIRE.
Below tliis stone his dust doth lie,
Who endured 28 years persecution by tyranny ;
Did him pursue with hue and cry,
Through many a lonesome place.
At last by Clavers he was ta'en, sentenced for to die,
But God, who for his soul took care.
Did him from prison bring.
Because no other cause they had,
But that he would not give up
With Christ his glorious king.
And swear allegiance to that beast,
The Duke of York I mean.
In spite of all their hellish rage,
A natural death he died.
In full assurance of his rest
With Christ eternally."
In Closeburn Churchyard a tombstone commemorates the Eev.
Peter Yorkstoun, minister of the parish. This eminent divine was
licensed in 1735 ; he was ordained minister of Kells in 1741. In
1763 he was translated to Closeburn ; he died on the 8th December,
1776, in his seventieth year, and thirty-sixth of his ministry. An
accurate scholar and an accomplished conversationalist, he was
highly distinguished for his ministerial gifts.
PAEISH OF DOENOCK.
The Eev. James Moffat, minister of the parish from 1694 to 1714,
has thus celebrated his departed wife : —
" Scarce will an age afford such one.
So prudent, wise, and rare.
Pious, humble, modest, meek, and wise.
Loadstone-like, attractive, swete."
On the tombstone of John Graham, of Eosetrees, and his wife and
son, are inscribed these lines : —