. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. one with a shieldbearing arms :—A chevron between three boar heads couped (Gordon),impaling, On a fess, between a lion head erased and a star, two buckles(King). Crest, on a helmet with mantling and wreath, a boar on an escroll at top, audaces fortuna juvat. The aboveachievement occupies the centre of the stone, the upper part is blank,and on the lower part is an inscription in Roman capitals :— HERE LYES THE CHILDRENOF WILLIAM GORDON ANDMARGARET KING HISSPOUS VIZ. ROBERT GORDONDIED 27 AUGUST 1712 LUCRETIA DIE
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. one with a shieldbearing arms :—A chevron between three boar heads couped (Gordon),impaling, On a fess, between a lion head erased and a star, two buckles(King). Crest, on a helmet with mantling and wreath, a boar on an escroll at top, audaces fortuna juvat. The aboveachievement occupies the centre of the stone, the upper part is blank,and on the lower part is an inscription in Roman capitals :— HERE LYES THE CHILDRENOF WILLIAM GORDON ANDMARGARET KING HISSPOUS VIZ. ROBERT GORDONDIED 27 AUGUST 1712 LUCRETIA DIED 12 JAR11 1717. Admiral William Gordon was another of their children. (3) There is a stone on the south side of the nave. It has ashield bearing arms(Fig. 50):—Ermine, ona fess three crescents(Craig), impaling, Ona bend, between twoHon heads erased,three buckles (King).Crest, on a helmetwith mantling andwreath an openbook. An escrollabove but no again theachievement occupiesthe centre of thestone ; the upper partis blank, and in the lowercapitals :—. Fig. i -Tombstone of James Craig. i this inscription in Roman 142 ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT HERE LIES THE CHILDRENOF JAMES CRAIG WREAT-ER IN ELGIN AND AGNESKING HIS SPOUS, MARJORIE& MARGARET CRAIGSAND JAMES CRAIG. Agnes King was a daughter of the first William King, and her husband,James Craig, writer in Elgin, was a son of the Rev. Thomas Craig,minister of St Andrews. (4) Another stone further west on same side is non-heraldic. (5) On the south wall of the nave there is a stone, the shield bearsarms (Fig. 51) :—On a fess, between a lion head (erased ?) and a star, twobuckles (King), impaling, Three garbs (Cumming). A helmet withmantling and wreath but no crest. An escroll beneath the shield butno motto. Above (the achievement) is this inscription in capitals :— HERE LYES MARGARET CVMM ING SPOUS TO WILLIAM KING OF NEWMIL LAT PROVEST OF ELGIN WHO DEPARTED THE 2 DAY OF IANUARY 1714. QUOD FOR
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