Robert Grierson
Robert Grierson was one of five Coveanters shot in the farm yard at Ingliston on 28 April 1685 by Colonel James Douglas, Lieutenant Livingstone and their dragoons. As he belonged to Balmaclellan aprish, he was buried here.
Robert Grierson's Gravestone
Balmaclellan Churchyard
Balmaclellan
Kirkcudbrightshire
NGR - NX *
The flat tablestone to Grierson is located in the old churchyard surrounding Balmaclellan Parish Church. he stone is typical of those erected by James Paterson ('Old Mortality').
The inscription reads:
HERE LYETH ROBERT
GRIERSON WHO WAS SHOT TO DEATH BY COMMAND OF
COLANEL JAMES DOUGLASE
AT INGLIS TOUN IN THE PAROCH OF GLENCARN ANNO 1685
THIS MONUMENT TO PASSENGERS SHALL CRY
THAT GOODLY GRIERSON UNDER IT DOTH LY
BETRAY'D BY KNAVISH WATSON TO HIS FOES
WHICH MADE THIS MARTYRS DAYS BY MURTHER CLOSE
IF YE WOULD KNOU THE NATURE OF HIS CRIME
THEN READ THE STORY OF THAT KILLING TIME
WHEN BABELS BRATS WITH HELLISH PLOTS CONCEAL'D
DESIGN'D TO MAKE OUR SOUTH THEIR HUNTING FIELD
HERE'S ONE OF FIVE AT ONCE WERE LAID IN DUST
TO GRATIFY ROME'S EXECRABLE LUST
IF CARBINES WITH MOLTEN BULLETS COUD
HAVE REACHED THEIR SOULS THESE MIGHTY NIMRODS WOUD
THEM HAVE CUT OF; FOR THERE COULD NO REQUEST
THREE MINUTES GET TO PRAY FOR FUTER REST