Wigtown mémoriaux des Martyrs, Vieille Ville cimetière Ecosse ; Monuments commémoratifs aux Covenanters 5 condamné à mort par noyade ou pendaison 1638

• Contributeur: Jean Williamson / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: D9AD4P
• Taille du fichier: 66,4 MB (4 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 5591 x 4150 px | 47,3 x 35,1 cm | 18,6 x 13,8 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: mai 1991
• Lieu: Old Town Cemetery, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK

Informations supplémentaires

A table tomb & 2 headstones inside a railed enclosure in north half of the Wigtown Old Town burial ground. Memorials of 1685 with C18th inscriptions by ‘Old Mortality’ Paterson. The Table slab records the sad fate of 18 year old Margaret Wilson, martyred by drowning ‘within the sea tied to a stake’ in 1638. The right hand headstone is to Margaret Lachlan, aged 63, likewise drowned at the same time. The left hand headstone refers to the hanging ‘without sentence of law’ of three men - William Johnston; John Milroy and George Walker also in 1683. The memorials of 1685 have inscriptions added in 18th century by the itinerant sculptor Robert Pattison 'Old Mortality' He acquired his nickname after Sir Walter Scott based a character on him in the book of the same name.

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