Here lyes JOHN HUNTER
Martyr who was cruely
murdered at Corehead
by Col. James Douglas &
his Party for his Adherance
to the word of God &
Scotland's Covenanted
work of Reformation
1685
Erected in the year 1726
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When Zion's King was robbed of his right
His witnesses in Scotland put to flight
When popish prelats & Indulgancie
Combin'd 'gainst Christ to ruine Presbytrie
All who would not unto their idols bow
They socht them out & whom they found they slew
For owning of Christ's cause I then did die
My blood for vengeance on his enemies did cry.
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On the second stone which covers the grave this inscription from a contemporary writer is given, dated 1910:
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On the second stone which covers the grave this inscription from a contemporary writer is given, dated 1910:
John Hunter, a Tweedsmuir lad, was accidentally visiting a sick friend at Corehead when timely in the morning he was surprised with Douglas and his Dragoons. He fled to the hill a great way, but one named Scott, being well horsed, compassed him and came before him. He was most barbarously shot through the body, felled on the head with the neck of a gun, and casten headlong over a high steep craig said to be the Beef Tub.
