EDIFRAGOS ANGLIAM BELLO LACESSENTES LABEFACTAVIT:
SYNODI NATIONALIS ANNO 1648, EDINBURGI HABITAE PRAESES ELECTUS,
EXTREMAM PATIRAE SUAE OPERAM CUM LAUDE NAVAVIT: CUMQUE OCULATIS
TESTIS VIDISSET MALIGNANTIUM QUAM PRAEDIXERAT RUINAM, EODEM QUO
FOEDUS TRIUM GENTIUM SOLENNE RENOVATUM TUIT DIE DECEDENS IN PACE,
ANNO AETATIS 36, IN GAUDIUM DOMINI INTRAVIT: INGENIO PROFUNDUS,
GENIO MITIS, DISPUTATIONE ACUTUS, ELOQUIO FACUNDUS, ANIMO
INVICTUS, BONOS IN AMOREM, MALOS IN INVIDIAM, OMNES IN SUI
ADMIRATIONEM, RAPUIT: PATLAE SUAE ORNAMENTUM; TANTO PATRE DIGNA
SOBOLES.

THIS TOMB BEING PULLED DOWN BY THE MALIGNANT INFLUENCE OF
ARCHBISHOP SHARP, AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF PRELACY, MR GEORGE
GILLESPIE, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT STRATHMIGLO, CAUSED IT TO BE
RE-ERECTED, IN HONOUR OF HIS SAID WORTHY GRANDFATHER, AND AS A
STANDING MONUMENT OF DUTIFUL REGARD TO HIS BLESSED MEMORY; ANNO
DOMINI, 1746.

It may be expedient to give a translation:--

"Master George Gillespie, minister at Edinburgh, in his youthful
years overthrew a host of 'English popish ceremonies;' as he
approached full manhood, having been sent as commissioner to the
Westminster Assembly, his attention was directed to the task of
extirpating Prelacy from England, and promoting purity and
uniformity in the worship of God. He chastised Erastianism in his
'Aaron's Rod Blossoming.' Having returned to his native country he
weakened the violators of the covenant, who were bent on provoking
a war with England.(7) Having been chosen moderator of the General
Assembly which met at Edinburgh in the year 1648, he devoted his
last exertions to the service of his country so as to draw forth
public approbation: and having, as an eye-witness, seen that ruin
of the malignants which he had foretold, departing in peace on the
same day on which the League of the three kingdoms was solemnly
renewed, in the 36th year of his age, he entered into the joy of
the Lord. He was a man profound in genius, mild in disposition,
acute in argument, flowing in eloquence, unconquered in mind. He
drew to himself the love of the good, the envy of the bad, and the
admiration of all. He was an ornament of his country,--a son worthy
of such a father."

Such was the "scandalous inscription" which the peevish spleen, yet bitter
malice of Scottish Prelacy, found gratif