Gordon & MacCubbin's Grave

Hallhill

Kirkpatrick Irongray

Kirkcudbrightshire

NGR - NX 910797

The gravestone and memorial to Gordon and MacCubbin are found in a railed enclosure on a low hill, located just off the road between Irongray Church and Hallhill farm.

The inscription on the original stone reads:

HERE LYES EDWARD GO

RDON AND ALEXANDER

M'CUBINE MARTYRES

HANGED WITHOUT

LAW BY LAGG AND CAP.

BRUCE FOR ADHEREING

TO THE WORD OF GOD

CHRISTS KINGLY GOVE

RMENT IN HIS HOUS

AND THE COVENANTED

WORK OF REFORMATION

AGAINST TYRANNY

PERJURY AND PRELACY

REV XII. 12 11 MAR 3 1685

AS LAGG AND BLOODIE

BRUCE COMMAND

WE WERE HUNG UP BY

HELLISH HAND

AND THUS THER FURIO

US RAGE TO STAY

WE DYED NEAR KIRK

OF IRON GRAY -

HERE NOW IN PEACE

SWEET REST WE TAKE

ONCE MURDER'D FOR

RELIGEON'S SAKE

The later, upright memorial reads:

THIS   MONUMENT,   DESIGNED   TO   EXPRESS

THE   RESPECT   CHERISHED   BY   THE   PRESENT

GENERATION FOR THE MEMORY AND PRINCIPLES

OF THE MARTYRS WHOSE ASHES REPOSE ON

THIS   SPOT   AND   WHOSE   NAMES   TOGETHER

WITH THE CAUSE   OF   THEIR SUFFERING ARE

INSCRIBED   ON THE ADJACENT   STONES   WAS

ERECTED WITH THE PROCEEDS OF A COLLECTION

AFTER A SERMON FROM REVELATIONS 20 . 4

PREACHED ON THE 27TH JULY 1851 IN THE

CHURCHYARD OF IRONGRAY BY THE REVD JOHN

MC DERMID MINISTER OF THE REFORMED

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH DUMFRIES

       AND I SAW THE SOULS OF THEM THAT

WERE BEHEADED FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS

AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD AND WHICH HAD

NOT WORSHIPPED THE BEAST NEITHER HIS

IMAGE NEITHER HAD RECEIVED HIS MARK

UPON THEIR FOREHEADS OR IN THEIR HANDS

AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST

A THOUSAND YEARS