Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions; Chiefly in Scotland (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: John Morison the father, and Isaac the son, are both buried at this tomb. Both rich in wealth, and honours of the town, With issue; to their glory and renoun. In wisdom great, they spent their passing days, Holy at death, to their immortal praise. Son, youth and baillie twice, went off the stage; The father full of honours and of age. Here lyeth Harie Morison, youngest son to John Morison; he was baillie of this burgh; died the 1 August 1623, the 39 year of his age. Parallel with that of Harie Moreson Southward: Here also lyeth Sir John Morison Knight, oye to the said John, and son to the said Isaac. He died the 29 year of his age, the 6 of July 1625. At the foot Southward, on a long stone: Hie jacet honorabilis vir Magister Alexander More- son de Prestoungrange, unus Senatorum supremi senatus qui obiit 20 Septemb. Anno Dom. 1631. setatis suae 52. Here lyes an honourable man, Mr. Alexander Moreson of Prestoungrange, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, who died as above. LAING'S Monument, MIL. 1614. Quam natura dedit, mortali corpore clauso, Dum spes exilii sustinet una moras, Vita fuit; nee vita fuit: mors, nescia mortis, h Posse dedit vita jam meliore frui. The life, me nature gave, while pent in clay, Hopes of escape supporting the delay, It was (ft life: death, ignorant of death, To me a life far better did bequeath. MR, GEORGE STUART'S Monument. It is a stone, made like a letterin, sloping at each end. On the top is written, G. S. died the 24 March 1618. Underneath, on the north-side, is written, Sacrae hie conduntur reliquise perennantis famae D. Margaretae Somervel, conjugis quondam lectissimae ac dilectissimae D. Georgii Stuart, in suprema curia advo- cati, quae corporis ergastulo faeliciter emancipata est, XVII. ...