Wants the Latin verses, being not legible.
The monument of George Brown, a most deserving
baillie of Dundee, who having happily discharged this
office for the space of ten years, in the heat of the fight
(at the intake of the town) was mortally wounded by the
enemy; by which wounds, in fighting having become
faint, by death, he payed his debt to nature, and to his
city and country, 6 October, in the year of our Lord
1651. Of his age 60.
Monumentum Georgii Brouni, Deidonani prætoris meritissimi; qui hoc præturæ munere per decennium feliciter
defunctus, undique pugnando lethaliter ab hostibus vulneratus: quibus vulneribus per martem languidus, mortem,
naturæ debitum, pro civitate & patria, reddidit 2do nona,, Octobris, anno Dom. 1651. .Ætatis sexagesimo.
The monument of George Brown, a most meritorious Bailie of
Dundee, who, having
hapily discharged this office for the space of ten years, was
mortally wounded by the enemy in
the heat of the fight, of which wounds, having become faint in
fighting, by death he paid his debt
to nature, and to his city and country, on the second of the
nones of October, in the year of the
Lord 1651, and of his age sixty.
Source: Thomson.
Old tomb, inscription worn out
Source:RT
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