Paisley High Kirkyard: Hammermen's property
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Paisley High Kirkyard: Hammermen's property
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 7 Mar 2014
For context, see Image; the stone is on the near side of the church halls. For the main description of the church and kirkyard, see Image Click on the end-note title for related images. Paisley's Hammermen obtained a charter from the Town Council (since they could not at that time secure one from the Crown) on the 15th of May 1761. From the second volume of Robert Brown's "History of Paisley" (1886): "This society have a piece of interment ground on the north side of the High Churchyard, with an ornamented memorial stone placed in the adjoining wall. The following inscription is on the stone:– 'The Property of the Hammermen Society in Paisley, 1796. To help the poor is our design In this our late erection; This shall a testimony be Of this our good intention.' This society have for their motto:– 'With hammer and hand All arts doth stand'" The book contains, on page 381, a picture of the society's armorial bearings, and, on the following page, a "list of deacons or boxmasters in the Hammermen Society" from 1850 to 1883.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.846178
Longitude
-4.42913