. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. at liking for Elgin, being here in 1494,1497, and yearly from 1501 to 1504. On the walls are several monuments, which have no connection withthe Cathedral. One is a stone with two cherub heads above an orna-mental shield, bearing arms (Fig. 27), viz. :—A heart ensigned with afalcon head couped and in base three stars, 2 and 1 (Falconer), impaling,Three water budgets and between them a boar head couped (Ross).M. Initials and L. R. with date 1676, and at foot the motto vtve C. 1 ut vivas. On a tablet underneathRoman capita
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. at liking for Elgin, being here in 1494,1497, and yearly from 1501 to 1504. On the walls are several monuments, which have no connection withthe Cathedral. One is a stone with two cherub heads above an orna-mental shield, bearing arms (Fig. 27), viz. :—A heart ensigned with afalcon head couped and in base three stars, 2 and 1 (Falconer), impaling,Three water budgets and between them a boar head couped (Ross).M. Initials and L. R. with date 1676, and at foot the motto vtve C. 1 ut vivas. On a tablet underneathRoman capitals:— the following inscription in ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 83 THIS MONUMENT ERECTED BY FALCONER, MINR., AT FORRES FOR HIMSELF, AND LILIAS ROSE, HIS SPOUS,AND THEIR POSTERITIE, JANY. 13, 1676. Job chap. 19, v. 25 and 26. This rose decays, This crown endures ; If once I run I cannot turn ; Im still beginning yet never ending. Near the above is erected a tablet to this Colin Falconer who was Bishopof Moray 1680. It is so black with age, one can scarcely believe. Fig. 27.—Falconer Shield of Arms. that its material is pure white marble. The inscription reads :— Sacred to the memory of Colin Falconer, son of WiUiam Falconerof Dounduff and Beatrix Dunbar who was the daughter of J. Dunbarof Bogs in the County of Moray, and grandson of Alexander Falconer 84 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT of Halkerton and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Archibald Douglas ofGlenbervie. He was born in the year 1623, and was married in 1648to a daughter of Rose of Clava. He was elected to the See of Argyle1679 and in 1680 he was consecrated Bishop of Moray. He died11th Nov. 1686 and was buried in the aisle of St Giles Church of monument was erected by Hugh Innes, Esq. of Lochalsh, the County of Ross, anno 1812, his great-great-grandson. On the east wall is a monument containing two tablets divided bypillars. On the one is the following in Roman capitals :— A SURVIVING HUSBAND, D. JAME
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