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PARISH OF TARBOLTON. 401
But ere next Sabbath did return,
They laid me in this lonely urn.
A blessed rest for them that be
From suffering, sin, and death set free.
Then kindred dear, aloud I call,
Prepare, for death will meet you all.
Should you like me next Sabbath lie,
I ask, are you prepared to die?"
PAEISH OF STRAITON.
Thomas M'Haffie, a Covenanter, who in 1685 was taken out of
his sick bed and shot, is on his tombstone in the churchyard
celebrated thus : —
" Though I was sick, and like to die.
Yet bloody Bruce did murder me ;
Because I adhered in my station
To our covenanted reformation ;
My blood for vengeance yet doth call
Upon Zion's haters all."
PARISH OF TARBOLTON.
In the vicinity of Coilsfield House an enclosed mound with two
upright stones is described as the burial-place of Coil, King of the
Britons, who here fell in battle. In 1837 the mound was opened,
and under the depth of four feet a circular flagstone was found
overlying several urns full of calcined bones. The principal urn was
seven inches in height and of similar diameter ; it was supposed
to contain the ashes of the pre-historic king. According to Boece
the Scots and Picts surprised the Britons by night and put nearly
the whole of them to the sword. The central district of Ayrshire,
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