Covenanter Memorial - Galston Parish Church
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Covenanter Memorial - Galston Parish Church
Image: © Raibeart MacAoidh Taken: 7 Aug 2020
In Memory of JOHN RICHMOND Younger of Knowe who was executed at the Cross of Glasgow March 19th 1684 and interred in The High Church Yard there AND JAMES SMITH East Threepwood Who was shot near Bank of Burn Ann 1684 By CAPT INGLIS and His Dragoons and buried there ALSO JAMES YOUNG & GEORGE CAMPBELL who were banished in 1679 AND THE REVD ALEXANDER BLAIR who suffered imprisonment 1673 GALSTON - FIVE COVENANTERS JOHN RICHMOND, JAMES SMITH, JAMES YOUNG, GEORGE CAMPBELL, REV ALEXANDER BLAIR http://www.covenanter.org.uk/galston_five_martyrs.html This image also shows the back of Andrew Richmond's headstone. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6562014 Scottish Covenanter Memorials Association http://www.covenanter.org.uk/galston_richmond.html
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