. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. ion, and hence the proverb Half done as Elgin was half burned. But later, when Huntlys menscattered for plunder, Douglas attacked them in the Bog of Dunkinty,where some 400 of them perished, which gave rise to the jeering rhyme— Oh, where are your men,Thou Gordon so gay ?In the Bog of Dunkinty,Mowing the hay ! Old Ballad. In passing, I may mention this Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray,was a benefactor to the Burgh, having conveyed the Aughteen PartLands to the Magistrates. On the floor are ten other tombstones. (1) Stone
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. ion, and hence the proverb Half done as Elgin was half burned. But later, when Huntlys menscattered for plunder, Douglas attacked them in the Bog of Dunkinty,where some 400 of them perished, which gave rise to the jeering rhyme— Oh, where are your men,Thou Gordon so gay ?In the Bog of Dunkinty,Mowing the hay ! Old Ballad. In passing, I may mention this Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray,was a benefactor to the Burgh, having conveyed the Aughteen PartLands to the Magistrates. On the floor are ten other tombstones. (1) Stone with shieldbearing arms :—Three boar heads (Gordon of Kinneddar). Under-neath are emblems of mortality :—Bell, sand-glass, coffin, skull, andbones. The marginal inscription is in Roman capitals :— HERE LYES ANE HONOURABLE WOMAN LUCRETIA GORDON SPOUSE TO GEORGE CUMINE SOMETIME PROVOST OP ELGIN WHO DIED 1688. 00 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT (2) Stone with shield bearing the Gordon arms (Fig. 31). Abovethe shield a coronet, over that a helmet, with mantling and wreath,. Fig. 31.—Tombstone of Alexander Gordovne thereon for crest a stag head erased. Supporters, two houndscollared and leashed. Motto at top, b yd and. Beneath thearms is inscribed :— ALEXANDER GORDOVNE or strath a win. (Enzie.) ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 91 Some distance beneath this is a skull, with legend round it, mementomori. The marginal inscription is :— HIER. LYIS . ANE . HONORABIL . MAN . ALEXANDER . GORDOVNE . SVMTY(ME . ) MARQVEIS . OF . HVNTLY . AND . FATHER . TO . ALEXr . GORDOVNEOF . DVENKYNTIT . QVHA .DEPERTIT . YE . IANVAR 1622 . (3) A stone with marginal inscription only, in Gothic letters,\)it jacrnt itobtlie .......... atlta. ct. robe rt. frat. (eius) ? cantor. orate. p. (4) A stone with shield bearing impaled arms (Fig. 32):—Three hollyleaves (Irvine), impaling, Three boar heads couped (Gordon). InitialsD. I. and E. G. Some way beneath the shield, a skull and thigh bone,and under that
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