At the wall beside the 2nd recess, tombstone of Villiam Nevton, Litster, 1608.
"The memorial of the rightivs is in the remembrens of the Lord continvaly, and sal not taist of the second deith ;
bot the memorial of the vikit sal rot, and pas avay and decay.
"Ve leir fra Abraham oor father of old,
To honor the burial ve soold be bold.
"O Lord, qvhov acceptabil is deith to them qvom feris and lovis the.
In morte vita" [ In death is life ]
Heir lyis a man of renovn and fairn callit Villem Nevton,
Litster, (An old and now
obsolete term for a Dyer ) Bvrges and Brother Gild of Dindie,
qyha dit in the Lord the 27 of
September, 1608, and of age------ .
The memorial of the righteovs is in the remembrens of the Lord
continvaly, and sal not taist of the
second deith; but the memorial of the vikit sal rot, and pass
avay and decay.
Ve leir that Abraham ovr father of old,
To honor the bvrial ve sovld be bold.
O Lord, qvhov acceptabil is deith to them qvom feris & lovis the. Life is
death.
Source: Thomson.
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