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PARISH OF EASTWOOD. 407
PAEISH OF EASTWOOD.
In Eastwood Churchyard two Covenanters, James Algie and
John Park, who suffered at the Cross of Paisley in 1685, are on
their tombstone commemorated thus : —
" Stay, passenger, as thou goes by,
And take a look where these do ly.
Who, for the love they bare to truth.
Were deprived of their life and youth.
Tho' laws made then caused many die,
Judges and 'sizers were not free ;
He that to them did these delate,
The greater count he hath to make ;
Yet no excuse to them can be :
At ten condemned, at two to die.
So cruel did their rage become,
To stop their speech caused beat the drum.
This may a standing witness be
'Twixt Presbytery and Prelacy." *
An aisle of the parish church is the burial-place of the Baron-
eted House of Maxwell of Pollok, now represented by Sir W'illiam
Stirling Maxwell, Bart., of Keir. Walter Steuart, of Pardovan,
author of the celebrated " Collections" in connection with the
Scottish Church, died while on a visit at Pollok House, and was
interred in the family aisle. A marble monument erected to his
memory is thus inscribed : —
" Within this aisle lyes Walter Steuart, of Pardovan, son of
Walter Steuart, of Pardovan, and grandson to Archibald Steuart,
of Blackball, a gent well skilled in most parts of useful learning,
and in the constitution of his country, and eminent for his
unbiass'd zeal for its ancient and real interests ; which he
shewed by his early appearance for the Protestant religion, in
accompanying King William from Holland at the glorious Eevolu-
tion, 1G88, and afterwards by his faithful services in our Scots
Parliament, where he for many years represented the borough of
Linlithgow. Of such distinguished piety and zeal for our holy
religion that he mortified 20,000 nierks to the society in Scotland
* This inscription is repeated on a monument to these martyrs ir. Paisley Cemetery
[see postea).