Transcription of above: " HERE LYSE WILLIAM JOHNSTON JOHN MILROY GEORGE WALKER WHO WAS WITHOUT SENTENCE OF LAW HANGED BY MAJOR WINRAM FOR THEIR ADHERANCE TO SCOTLANDS REFORMATION COVENANTS NATIONAL AND SOLAM LEAGWE 1685 "
" HERE LYSE MARGRAT LACHLANE WHO WAS BY UNJUST LAW SENTENCED TO DIE BY LAGG STRACHANE WINRAME AND GRAHAME AND TYED TO A STAKE "
" HERE LYSE MARGRAT WILSON DOUGHTER TO GILBERT WILSON IN GLENVERNOCH WHO WAS DROUNED ANNO 1685 AGED 18 "
" LET EARTH AND STONE STILL WITNES BEARE THERE LYSE A VIRGINE MARTYRE HERE MURTERD FOR OUNING CHRIST SUPREAME HEAD OF HIS CHURCH AND NO MORE CRIME BUT NOT ABJURING PRESBYTRY AND HER NOT OUNING PRELACY THEY HER CONDEM'D BY UNJUST LAW, OF HEAVEN NOR HELL THEY STOOD NO A.... WITHIN THE SEA TYD TO A STAKE SHE SUFFERED FOR CHRIST JESUS SAKE THE ACTORS OF THIS CRUEL CRIME WAS LAGG STRACHAN WINRAM AND GRAHAME NEITHER YOUNG YEARES NOR YET OLD AGE COULD STOP THE FURY OF THERE RAGE ... "
The Covenanter movement to maintain the reforms of the Scottish Reformation came to the fore with signing of the National Covenant of 1638 in opposition to royal control of the church, promoting Presbyterianism as a form of church government instead of an Episcopal polity governed by bishops appointed by the Crown. The dispute led to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the overthrow of the monarchy. With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the Covenants were declared treasonable and Episcopacy was restored. Particularly in the south-west of Scotland, ministers refused to submit. Barred from their churches, they held open air field assemblies called conventicles which the authorities suppressed using military force. Failure to take a test of allegiance to the king, which required renouncing the Covenant, met with the death penalty.
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