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184 THE LINDSAYS OF
Scotland. There is in tlie niuacum, liowever, a crucifix
of similar work, in rhamidcve en.unc], wliich was found
in the churchyard of Ceres, Fife."
Built into the wall of Wauchope Kirkyard, which
is close by the castle site, are two monumental stones,
each with an incised sword upon it. These are figured
in Langholm as It Was (llysl(;p) ; the authors of which
say that " we are informed by Dr T. (Joke Squance,
F.ll.S.Ed., of Sunderland, whose knowh-doe and collec-
tion of armour and weapons is well kni.wn tlnoughout
the north of England, that tlie swoids are cf Knglish
design of the thirteenth century." And it is .suggested
that the stones marked the graves of some of the early
Lindsay lords of Wauchope.
Sir John de Lindsay (?*) Sixth Laird of Wauchope.
The insertion of this name here is based only on sur-
mise. A generation must have intervened between
the last mentioned laird and the one next known to ua.
The time interval requires that ; and a contemporary
notice, although lacking in speciticatiou, may be read aa
having reference to this missing link in the pedigree.
In 1383 Isabella, relict of John do Lindsay, knight,
had a dispensation to marry Patrick Sandilands, the
dispensation being required because John and Patrick
were related in the third degree of consanguinity.*
Since there is some reason to believe that it was the
Lindsays of Waucho})e who were related to the
Sandilands, it is probable that the John de Lindsay
here mentioned was the Laird of Wauchope, who suc-
ceeded the fifth one of the line, and who had died
shortly before 1383.
* rap. Reg., Vol. IV., p. 247.