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The Collector.
ANCIENT TOMB , IN THE PARISH OF DUNLOP . [ FROM SIR JOIIS SINCLAIR ' S STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND . } IN this burial-place is a tomb , built of hewed stone , and covered with a stone root in the inside ; itis arched and plastered , and bears evident marks of having been painted and ornamented . It : the floor , on a flat stoneis the following circumscription ' Pleir Ivis Hanis
, . Hamiltoune , Vicar of Dunlope , quha deceisit ye . ? o of Mali 1608 , ye aige of 72 zeirs , aud of Janet Denhame his s ' pous . ' At the east end , under a marble arch , with two marble pillars of the Composite order in front , are two statues kneeling on a marble monument , in the attitude of devotion , and habited according to the fashion of the times . On the wall beyond them , which is also inatble , are these
lines in capital letters . * Here lye the bodies of Hanis Hamilton , sonne of Archibald Hamilton of Raploch , servant to King James Ihe Fift , and of Janet Denham , his wife , daughter of James Denham , Laiid of Westshiekie . They lived marvid together 45 yeeres , during which tyme the said Hanis served the cure at this church . They were much beloved of all that knew them , and especially of the parishoners . They had six sonnes , James , Archibald , Gavin , John , William and Patrick , and one daughter , Jeane , martyed to William Muire of Glanderstoune .
j . The dust of time lyis in this , artful frame , Rom , 8 cli . J Whose birth them honored from an honored name , Prov . 31 ch . ver . 18 . The 1 A painful pastor and his spotless wife , ver - IO & 3 ° - affliflions of whose , , t st t enibiime here there "life . The P " ce of tin * I IK - are -,,, „ - , ., , , . ,. ,- , ' a virtuous not worthy I Best with the height ol favors from above , woman is of the ciory Blood , grace ablest memorial ! all men's love , far above which shall A fruitful ! of ' spring on whom the Lord hath fixt , pearlcs . be showed won
Fortuns with virtue and with honor mixt , - ^ " unto us . T ) len live ( lieS g dead above in ej ) d ! ess j 0 yeSj that toveth Here in their seid and noble Cland ' eboyes , [ namej ^ ji ) t > ' In whom ( graunt soe O Heavens ) their honor'd praised . May never die but in the death ot fame . 16 41 I LV
Round the verge of the arch is this passage from Daniel , 12 c . v . 3 . ' They that turn many to ri ghteousness shal shene as the stars for ever and ever . ' Above this is a fine , representation of a curtain parting in the middle , and held aside by a hand on each corner , as if to ' show them at their prayers . And over the door , on a marble stone , is this inscripti n , now- scarcely legible . ' Come Lord Jesus , come . '
As the figures point to the time when the tomb was built , so the initial letters were intended , I imagine , to represent , that it was built by James Lord Viscount Clandeboyes . It is upon the whole a piece of fine woikmanship , and a tribute to the memory of worthy parents , which must have been very expensive to their pious son . But thro' length of time , and great neglect . it has been much injured ; and
as there are none who think themselves immediately concerned to keep it in repair , it will soon become ruinous . For none will impute to the present age what was said of the Pharisees , that they ' build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the ri ghteous , '
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The Collector.
ANCIENT TOMB , IN THE PARISH OF DUNLOP . [ FROM SIR JOIIS SINCLAIR ' S STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND . } IN this burial-place is a tomb , built of hewed stone , and covered with a stone root in the inside ; itis arched and plastered , and bears evident marks of having been painted and ornamented . It : the floor , on a flat stoneis the following circumscription ' Pleir Ivis Hanis
, . Hamiltoune , Vicar of Dunlope , quha deceisit ye . ? o of Mali 1608 , ye aige of 72 zeirs , aud of Janet Denhame his s ' pous . ' At the east end , under a marble arch , with two marble pillars of the Composite order in front , are two statues kneeling on a marble monument , in the attitude of devotion , and habited according to the fashion of the times . On the wall beyond them , which is also inatble , are these
lines in capital letters . * Here lye the bodies of Hanis Hamilton , sonne of Archibald Hamilton of Raploch , servant to King James Ihe Fift , and of Janet Denham , his wife , daughter of James Denham , Laiid of Westshiekie . They lived marvid together 45 yeeres , during which tyme the said Hanis served the cure at this church . They were much beloved of all that knew them , and especially of the parishoners . They had six sonnes , James , Archibald , Gavin , John , William and Patrick , and one daughter , Jeane , martyed to William Muire of Glanderstoune .
j . The dust of time lyis in this , artful frame , Rom , 8 cli . J Whose birth them honored from an honored name , Prov . 31 ch . ver . 18 . The 1 A painful pastor and his spotless wife , ver - IO & 3 ° - affliflions of whose , , t st t enibiime here there "life . The P " ce of tin * I IK - are -,,, „ - , ., , , . ,. ,- , ' a virtuous not worthy I Best with the height ol favors from above , woman is of the ciory Blood , grace ablest memorial ! all men's love , far above which shall A fruitful ! of ' spring on whom the Lord hath fixt , pearlcs . be showed won
Fortuns with virtue and with honor mixt , - ^ " unto us . T ) len live ( lieS g dead above in ej ) d ! ess j 0 yeSj that toveth Here in their seid and noble Cland ' eboyes , [ namej ^ ji ) t > ' In whom ( graunt soe O Heavens ) their honor'd praised . May never die but in the death ot fame . 16 41 I LV
Round the verge of the arch is this passage from Daniel , 12 c . v . 3 . ' They that turn many to ri ghteousness shal shene as the stars for ever and ever . ' Above this is a fine , representation of a curtain parting in the middle , and held aside by a hand on each corner , as if to ' show them at their prayers . And over the door , on a marble stone , is this inscripti n , now- scarcely legible . ' Come Lord Jesus , come . '
As the figures point to the time when the tomb was built , so the initial letters were intended , I imagine , to represent , that it was built by James Lord Viscount Clandeboyes . It is upon the whole a piece of fine woikmanship , and a tribute to the memory of worthy parents , which must have been very expensive to their pious son . But thro' length of time , and great neglect . it has been much injured ; and
as there are none who think themselves immediately concerned to keep it in repair , it will soon become ruinous . For none will impute to the present age what was said of the Pharisees , that they ' build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the ri ghteous , '