Square monument with Italian cornice, erected to Bailie
William Raitt, 1670.
Four panels with figures, subjects now illegible.
This must have been one of the finest monuments in the Howff.
Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions Chiefly in Scotland 1834 (R Montieth)
Hoc viator, marmor tibi refricet memoriam Gulielmi
Ręti, apud nos inter primos conspicui, summę pietatis
ac probitatis viri, Taodunensis necnon prętoris munere
varios annos nobilitati, non minus civibus quam suis
chari, ex ergastulo hoc corporis nunc elapsi MDCLXX.
Ętatis suę 57. Decembris 13.
Passenger, let this stone raise in you the memory of
William Rait, a man of great piety and goodness,
shining' among the prime citizens with us, as having'
been honoured several years with the office of a baillie,
no less dear to his neighbours than to his own, now.
escaped out of the prison of his body, as above.
Lo truth, zeal, goodness, candour, constancy,
Beneath this stone, all here entombed lye;
Noe wonder, here within this tomb you see,
Lyes William Rait, once praetor in Dundee:
Whose rest from wordly cares does pleasant prove,
While his immortal soul triumphs above.
Passenger, let this stone revive in you the memory of William
Raitt, a man of great
piety and goodness, shining among the prime citizens of Dundee, as having
been honoured
several years with the office of Bailie, no less endeared to his
neighbours than to his own, now
escaped out of the prison of his body 13th December, 1670, and
of his age 57.
Lo, truth, zeal, candour, constancy,
Beneath this tomb all here entombed lye;
Noe wonder, here within this tomb you see,
Lyes William Raitt, once Praetor in Dundee,
Whose rest from worldly cares doth pleasant prove,
While his immortal soul triumphs above.
Source: Thomson.
Claimant: Stirling Graham Esq of Duntrune.
Now claimed by William Young, tailor and burgess, Dundee
Source:RT
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