Tombs of the Dundee Howff
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 Stone No.361

 

Inscription.

 Flat tombstone of ----- Alexander, merchant, 1605

Hic dormic how estus vir____________nder anercater civis de Dundie qui obiit 18 Novembr anno ? 1605 aetatis sae 63 sive vivmus sive morimur domini ?? cibus anime Christ. In morta -ila.


Here sleeps an honest man_____ Alexander, Merchant and citizen of Dundee, who died 18th November in the year of Christ 1605, and of his age 63.

Whether we live or die we are the Lord's.

Christ is the food of the Soul. Life in Death.

Source: The Book of the Howff, ŠLibraries, Leisure and Culture Dundee, Local History Centre & is
reproduced with kind permission.