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PARISH OK CAKSrilAIUN". 329
" Here lyes David Halliday, portioner of Mayfield, who was
sliot upon the 21.st; of Feb., 1685 ; and David Halliday, once in
Crlenap, who was likewise shot upon the 11th July, 1685, for
their adherence to the principles of Scotland's Covenanted
Eeformation.
Beneath this stone two David Hallidays
Doe lie, wliose souls now sing their Master's praise.
To know, if curious passengers desire,
. ■ For what, by whom, and how they did expire.
They did oppose this nation's perjury;
Nor could they join with lordly prelacy.
Indulging favours from Christ's enemies
Quenched not their zeal. This niouument then cries,
Those were the causes, not to be forgot.
Why they 1 ly Lag so wickedly were shot.
One name, one cause, one grave, one heaven do tie
Their souls to that one God eternally."
PARISH OF BOEGUE.
A tombstone in the churchyard denotes the grave of Robert
Macquae, shot by Colonel Douglas in 1685 for attending con-
venticles.
WiUiam Nicholson, author of the " Brownie of Blednoch," and
other popular ballads, is interred at Borgue : he died on the
16th May, 1849.
PARISH OF CARSPHAIRN.
A monument on the moor of Crossgellioch commemorates three
Covenanters, Joseph Wilson, John Jamieson, and John Humphrey,
shot by Claverhouse in 1685. The monument was reared in 1827 ;
in digging for its foundation the workmen discovered the bodies of