Cathcart Martyrs

Robert Thom, Thomas Cooke and John Urie were three Covenanters who were apprehended in the Loan of Polmadie in May 1685. They were to be shot at that location at the command of Major Balfour and Captain Maitland.

Cathcart Martyrs' Grave

Cathcart Old Churchyard

Cathcart

Glasgow

NGR - N*

The flat graveston to the three Cathcart martyrs is lcated in the old churchyard. Access to this graveard is sometimes difficult due to it being locked.

The inscription on the stone reads:

THIS•IS•THE•STONE•TOMB•OF•ROB

ERT•THOME•THOMAS•COOKE•AND

IOHN•URIE•MARTYRS•FOR•OUNING

THE•COVENANTED•UORK•OF•RE

FORMATION•THE•II•OF•MAY•1685

THE•BLOODY•MURDERERS•OF•THESE•MEN•N

WERE•MAGOR•BALFOUR•AND•CAPTAIN•METLA

AND•UITH•THEM•OTHERS•UERE•NOT•FREE

CAUSED•THEM•TO•SEARCH•IN•POLMADIE

AS•SOON•AS•THEY•HAD•THEM•OUT•FOUND

THEY•MURTHERED•THEM•UITH•SHOTS•OF•GUNS:

SCARCE•TIME•DID•THEY•TO•THEM•ALLOU

BEFOR•THER•MAKER•THER•KNIES•TO•BOW

MANY•LIKE•IN•THIS•LAND•HAVE•BEEN

WHOS•BLOOD•FOR•WINGANCE•CRYS•TO•HEAVN

THIS•CRUELL•WICKEDNESSE•YOU•SEE

WAS•DON•IN•LON•OF•POLMADIE

THIS•MAY•A•STANDING•WITNESS•BE

'TUIXT•PRISBYTRIE•AND•PRELACIE