Middle – Row 11 – 14 – Hume

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To the memory of JOHN HUME tenant in Easter Bankhead of Eccles who was born at Easter Coldstream 7 June 1716. Interred here in 1785. And to several of his immediate ancestors. Also interred here who suffered severely during the period between 1638 – 1689 in the noble effort to preserve unimpaired the Civil and Religious Liberties of Scotland against prelatic oppression. One having fallen in a field of conflict in this neighbourhood while others experienced persecution and confiscation of property. Erected by his grandson JOHN HUME of the Register House Edinburgh 1837.