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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Tombstone of John Bell

"Here bluidy Bell baith skin and bane
Lyes quitely still aneath thys stane
He was a stark moss-trooper kent
As ever drave a nout oer bent
He brynt ye Lockwood Tower and Hall
And flang ye lady oer ye wall
For whilk ye Johnstone stout and wyte
Set Blackheth a' in lowe by nyght
Whyle cry'd a voice, as if frae Hell
Haste, open ye gates for bluidy Bell"

--Inscription said to be from the Tombstone of John Bell (died 1510)

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