. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. east of the Chapter-house is a railed-in burial-place. The wording on a stone erected there by a John Forsythe, Iron-monger in Elgin, is rather good and not frequently met with. As a ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 105 testimony of his sincere respectand esteem for the Memory ofhis wifes relations. Due east from this, near theenclosure wall, is a recumbentstone having arms (Fig. 41) :—Three stars and between thema crescent. At sides the initialsI. I. Surmounting the shield isan escroll with motto (Keip ?traist, the marginal inscr
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. east of the Chapter-house is a railed-in burial-place. The wording on a stone erected there by a John Forsythe, Iron-monger in Elgin, is rather good and not frequently met with. As a ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 105 testimony of his sincere respectand esteem for the Memory ofhis wifes relations. Due east from this, near theenclosure wall, is a recumbentstone having arms (Fig. 41) :—Three stars and between thema crescent. At sides the initialsI. I. Surmounting the shield isan escroll with motto (Keip ?traist, the marginal inscrip-tion telling us that, Here lyesane . . honorabil. . man calledJohn Innes of Darkland. ThisJohn Innes mortified £1000 Scotsin 1698 for the poor of Elgin,Lhanbryd and Birnie ; in 1707 afurther £1100 Scots—with whichthe Lands of the Shooting Acrewere purchased—for the poor ofElgin, Lhanbryd, St Andrews,Birnie and Urquhart; and in1713 he bequeathed 1000 merksScots, to the poor in Elgin andLhanbryd—all in certain propor-tions,—the Darkland Fig. 40.—Arms of Alexander Dunbar,last Prior of Pluscarden. Behind the Cathedral, atthe enclosure wall a smallplatform has been erected, onascending which, a good viewthrough the eastern windowscan be had, giving some ideaof the magnificent proportions ofthe building. A little to the south ofthis platform, is the stoneerected by Lord Cockburn —On Tombstone of John Innes of Darkland. memory of John Shanks, and
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