DescriptionCovenanters gravestones at Glencairn Churchyard, Dumfriesshire.jpg
English: Covenanters gravestones at Glencairn Churchyard, Dumfriesshire.
These gravestones within a railed enclosure are for four Covenanters, James Bennoch, Robert Edgar, John Gibson and Robert Mitchell. The four, along with Robert Grierson, were arrested by government soldiers and taken to Ingleston Mains Farm where after a short trial they were shot on 28th April 1685. Robert Grierson was buried at Balmaclellan. The best preserved inscription is on the slab on the left which reads:-
HERE LYES JAMES
BENNOCH SHOT DE
AD BY COL. DOUGLAS
AND LIVINGSTONS
DRAGOONS AT ENG
LSTON FOR ADHE
REING TO THE WORD
OF GOD CHRISTS KI
NGLY GOVERMENT
IN HIS HOUSE AND
THE COVENTED WO
RK OF REFORMATION
AGAINST TYRANNY
PERJURY AND PRELA
CY APRIL 28 : 1685 REV.
12 : 11
HERE LYES A MONUMENT
OF POPISH WRATH
BECAUSE I’M NOT PERJURED
I’M SHOT TO DEATH
BY CRUEL HANDS OF MEN
GODLESS AND UNJUST
DID SACRIFICE MY BLOOD
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