Inscrition son the headstones of John Hunter, Covenanter, Tweedsmuir Kirkyard.
The Inscription on right hand stone (looking south) reads:-
Here lyes
The body of John Hunter
Martyr who was cruelly
Murdered at Corehead
by Col James Douglas and
his party for his adherance
To the Word of God and
Scotland's covenanted
Work of Reformation
1685
Erected in the year 1726.
(Reverse of Stone)
when Zions King was robbed
of his Right
His witnesses in Scotland
put to flight
When popish prelates &
Indulgancies
All who would not unto
their idols bow
They socht them out &
and who they found they slew
For owning of Christ's cause
I then did die
My blood for vengeance on
His en'mies did cry.
(The following was inscribed on a new stone in 1910. (left hand stone.)
John Hunter a Tweedsmuir lad
was accidently visiting a
sick friend at Corehead when
timely in the morning he was
surprised with Douglas and
his dragoons. He fled to the
hill a great way, but one
named Scott, being well horsed, compassed
him and came before him
He was most barbarouslie shot through the body,
felled on the head with the neck of a gun,
and casted headlong over a high steep craig.
Contempory Record.
J.H.
1660-1685
or return to Covenanters in Upper Tweed.