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The parish of Glencairn has a record of another victim about the same time as those at Ingliston, and near the same place William Smith, a young man only nineteen years of age. In 1685 the house of Caitloch was occupied as a garrison by the troopers, who ravaged the country round in search of wanderers. In one of these raids, Cornet Baillie met this countryman in the fields near his father's house. There was no charge against him, but for refusing to answer questions, he was taken to the garrison. His father immediately applied to his master, Laurie of Maxweltown, to meet Baillie at the Kirk of Glencairn, with the hope of obtaining the liberation of his son, but Laurie had no sympathy with the Covenanters; and on meeting the Cornet, young Smith was again interrogated, and again refusing to answer satisfactorily, Laurie himself passed sentence of death, which he had power to do as a Commissioner.
Baillie opposed this summary process as illegal, but the blood-thirsty Laird would hear of no delay, and threatened the Cornet for sparing him so long. He was accordingly carried to the Race Muir, near at hand, and shot. A large boulder stone in the field is pointed out where he fell, and retains the name--William Smith--engraven on it. For some time his body was not allowed to be buried, and it is said he was first interred under the threshold of his father's cottage: afterwards it was taken to the churchyard at Tynron, where a memorial stone, similar in size and form to those at Glencairn, marks his last resting-place with this inscription :--
Here lyes William Smith, in Hill,
who, for his adhering to the Covenanted
Work of Reformation, was shot at
Moniaive Moss, the 29th day of March, 1685,
His age 19 years.
This deed was not done by a Council of war,
but by countrymen without syse.
I, William Smith, now here do ly,
Once martyr'd for Christ's verity,
Douglas of Stenhouse, Lawrie of Maxwelton,
Caus'd Coronet Bailie give me martyrdom.
What cruelty they to my corps then us'd
Living may judge; me burial refus'd.
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