(Added on the monument at a subsequent date):—
“Yes, though the sceptic’s tongue deride
Those martyrs who for conscience died—
Though modern history blight their fame,
And sneering courtiers hoot the name
Of men who dared alone be free,
Amidst a nation’s slavery;—
Yet long for them the poet’s lyre
Shall wake its notes of heavenly fire;
Their names shall nerve the patriot’s hand
Upraised to save a sinking land;
And piety shall learn to burn
With holier transports o’er their urn.
James Grahame.
Peace to their mem’ry! let no impious breath
Sell their fair fame, or triumph o’er their death.
Let Scotia’s grateful sons their tear-drops shed,
Where low they lie in honour’s gory bed;
Rich with the spoil their glorious deeds had won,
And purchas’d freedom to a land undone—
A land which owes its glory and its worth
To those whom tyrants banish’d from the earth.”
“For the accomplishment of this resolution, the three kingdoms lie under no small debt of gratitude to the Covenanters. They suffered and bled both in fields and on scaffolds for the cause of civil and religious liberty; and shall we reap the fruit of their sufferings, their prayers and their blood, and yet treat their memory either with indifference or scorn? No! whatever minor faults may be laid to their charge, whatever trivial accusations may be brought against them, it cannot but be acknowledged that they were the men who, ‘singly and alone,’ stood forward in defence of Scotland’s dearest rights, and to whom we at the present day owe everything that is valuable to us either as men or as Christians.”
It only remains for us to add that James Currie, who was the means of raising the original monument, suffered much during the persecution and more than once narrowly escaped capture.
INDEX
Alloway Kirk, witches in, [178]
Antiquity of bells, [34]
Assassins of James I., [6]
Averting evil spirits at birth, [194]
Bag-pipes at funerals, [254]
Banns, publication of, [213]
Banquets at baptism, [207]
Baptism of bells, [42]
Beating bounds, [16]
Begg, Dr, opposes the organ, [107]
Behaviour at kirk, [119]
Bell Lore, [34-45]
Beltane superstitions, [46]
Betrothals, [212], [213]
Bible and witchcraft, [166]
Bible thrown into the fire, [191]
Biers, [241]
Biggar, witchcraft at, [184]
Birth and Baptism. Customs and Superstitions, [194-209]
Black Rood, [29]
Brank, [115]
Brechin Cathedral, [66]
Bristo Port, heads on, [252]
Burghs, origin of, [64-66]
Burning witches, [163], [168], [184], [191]
Calvinism, advent of, [164]
Care of the poor, [149]
Celtic crosses, [24], [28]
Charter of St. Giles’s Church, [6]
Children, marriage of, [216]
Christmas, punished for keeping, [117]
Church, marriages to be celebrated in, [222]
Church music, [98-107]
Churches, interment in, [243]
Clova jougs, [113]
Coins, objection to foreign, [144]
Compulsory attendance at kirk, [119], [137]
Consent of parents to be given for marriage, [216]
Covenanters slain, [262]
Covenanters’ flag, [27], [28]
Craft-gilds, [128]
Creeping to the cross, [27]
Cripples assisted, [155]
Cross, the, in Scotland, [1-33]
Cross in baptism, [197]
Culdees supplanted, [73]
Currie, James, [263]
Curiosities of Church Finance, [130-161]
Dead, tales about the, [166]
Death and Burial. Customs and Superstitions, [237-254]
Death hamper, [242]
Denmark, Princess Anne and witchcraft, [175]
Devil and minstrels, [170]
Devil preaching a sermon, [177]
Discipline of the Kirk, [108-129]
Douglas, Lady Janet, suffered for witchcraft, [163]
Dress of women condemned, [120]
Drinking at funerals, [239]
Drunkards punished, [124], [138]
Duddingston jougs, [114]
Dunblane Cathedral, [66]
Dundee bells, [44]
Easter Sunday customs, [48]
Eastwood, witchcraft at, [192]
Edinburgh Market Cross, [5], [7], [11]
Episcopacy and witchcraft, [173]
Erskine, Lord Chief Justice, married at Gretna Green, [229]
Excommunications, [110]
Farthings at collections, [146]
Fishing on Sunday, [135]
Flodden, [12]
Foreign coins, objections to, [144]
Forbidding the banns, [220]
Forbidding marriage, [127]
Frost, Thomas. Saints and holy wells, [46-63]
—— Church music, [98-107]
Funeral bells, [40-41], [44], [245-247]
Funeral sermons, [248]
Geddes, Jenny, [256], [259]
Gladstone, W. E., restores Edinburgh Cross, [10-11]
Glasgow Cathedral, [67-85]
Gifts of bells to churches, [35]
Graveyard of Greyfriars, [260-266]
Gretna Green gossip, [227-236]
Gossips’ wake, [195]
Haddington, witchcraft at, [184]
Hamilton, Sir William, funeral of, [253]
Hand-bells at funerals, [40-41]
Handfasting, [210-212]
Hannay, Dean, [256], [258]
Harmonium, [106]
Holyrood Abbey founded, [31]
Holy Wells, [46], [63]
Hospitality at funerals, [253]
Hours of church service, [96]
Howlett, E. Bell Lore, [34-45]
Humours of the collection, [141]
Hymns submitted, [102]
Ignorant persons’ children not to be baptised, [205]
Introduction of the organ at Glasgow, [105]
Iona crosses, [18-22]
James VI. and witchcraft, [174]
Jougs, [113]
Kilmarnock Cross, [16]
Kirkcaldy, witchcraft at, [189]
Kirkwall Cathedral, [67]
Knox burned in effigy, [12]
—— deemed a wizard, [171]
Lanark Cross, [16]
Length of sermon, [121]
Life in the pre-Reformation Cathedrals, [64-85]
Linlithgow, [16]
Liturgy used, [93]
Long sermons, [95]
Macintosh, L., funeral of, [253]
Manner of examining witches, [180]
Mar, Earl of, suffered for witchcraft, [163]
Market crosses, [4]
Marriage laws and customs, [210-226]
Marriage vow, punished for violating, [125]
Martyrs’ Monument, Edinburgh, [260-266]
Mass, punished for saying, [13]
Medical assistance, [155]
Memorable marriage at Gretna Green, [232]
Millar, A. H. Life in the pre-Reformation Cathedrals, [64-85]
Mode of marrying at Gretna Green, [231]
Money-box, church, [147]
Montrose, Marquis, body removed, [251]
Monuments, Destruction of, [3]
Murray, Earl, assassination of, [251]
Observance of old church festivals forbidden, [121]
Omens of death, [239]
Opening doors for departing spirits, [238]
Organs, [89], [98], [99], [102], [104], [106]
Origin of Glasgow Cathedral, [71]
Our Lady, wells dedicated to, [55]
Pagan rites at marriages, [224]
Palls, [247]
Parochial inquisitions, [178]
Parsons at Gretna Green, [229-232]
Peebles bells, [38]
Perth bells, [39], [43]
Pews, introduction of, [140]
Pilgrimages to saints’ wells, [60-62]
Pillory, [116], [124], [125]
Poor travellers’ hospital, [54]
Prayer-book, introduction of the, [100]
—— objection to, [255]
Precentor, [88], [104]
Press guarded, [122]
Priest pelted at the Cross, [13]
Private baptism, [198-202]
Proclamations published at crosses, [12]
Psalmody, [100], [101], [102]
Public Penance, [111]
Public worship in olden times, [86-97]
Ransoms for sailors, [156]
Reader, [87]
Rees, Rev. R. Wilkins. Curiosities of Church Finance, [130-161]
—— Witchcraft and the kirk, [162-193]
Reformation, [1]
Registers of baptisms, [201], [206], [208]
Registers of deaths, [249]
Riddle-turning, [124]
Riding the marches, [16]
Repentance stool, [111], [158]
Roslin, Lord, funeral of, [253]
Royal edicts proclaimed from crosses, [16]
Ruthwell Cross, [26]
Sabbath-breaking, [136]
Saints and holy wells, [46-63]
Scandals and marriage, [217-218]
Schoolmasters, [152]
Scots money, [133]
Scotchmen warned not to follow James VI. to England, [17]
Sculptured tombstones, [23]
Seal of Holyrood Abbey, [32]
Sharp, Archbishop, assassinated, [173]
Silver in bells, [41]
Singing hymns, objections to, [92]
Slanderers punished, [125]
Solemn League of the Covenant, [261]
Spurious money at collections, [146]
Stirling, penance at, [196]
Story of a stool, [255-259]
St. Andrew’s Cathedral, [66]
St. Andrew’s Well, [56]
St. Bernard’s Well, [53]
St. Catherine’s Well, [52]
St. Columba’s Wells, [48]
St. Corbett’s Well, [54]
St. Fergus’s Well, [48]
St. Fillan’s Well, [50]
St. Giles’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, [66]
St. Helena’s Wells, [49]
St. Iten’s Well, [49]
St. Kentigern, [67]
St. Maelrubha Well, [47]
St. Margaret of Scotland, [29]
St. Medan’s Chapel and Well, [50-51]
St. Mulvay’s Well, [47]
St. Mungo, [67]
St. Olav’s Well, [54]
St. Querdon’s Well, [59]
St. Ronan’s Well, [48]
St. Thenew’s Well, [59]
St. Wallach’s Bath, [57]
Sunday observance, [117], [133-138]
Superstitions, marriage, [221]
Swearing, punished for, [124]
Taking snuff in the kirk, [128]
Tokens of death, [237]
Tyack, Rev. Geo. S. The Cross in Scotland, [1-33]
—— Discipline of the Kirk, [108-129]
Tyninghame, witchcraft at, [184]
Unbaptised children, burial of, [242]
Uncoffined burials, [241]
Votive offerings, [57]
Watching the dead, [238]
Waters, Rev. Alexander. Public worship in olden times, [86-97]
Western Isles, crosses in, [22]
Westminster Assembly of Divines, [87]
Wine at Edinburgh Cross, [11]
Witchcraft, [123]
Witchcraft a capital offence, [164]
Witchcraft and the Kirk, [162-193]
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