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copied on stone from originals now lost, but found in other places; and many are said to have been altered according to his fancy, with a singular conceit. He has given, of his own composition, three inscriptions cut à l'antique, which stand with the others.
The first is historical, and settles the time in which the Romans had a station here; then gives the time in which it suffered the ravages of the Scots; after that commemorates a scourge of the pestilence, and finally the removal of the market to Gilshaughline. The last was occasioned by the plague, of which a hundred and twenty died in the town and parish.
The next inscription is in memory of the founders of the school; and the third is a tribute he pays to his own -

"ABALLABA QVAM CC.
"FLVIT ITVNA. STATIO FVIT
"RO. TEMP. MAVR. AREL.
"HANC VASTAVIT. F. F.
"GVIL. R. SCOT. 1176.
"HIC PESTIS SAEVIT 1598
"OPP. DESERT MERCAT
"AS GILSHAVGLINE.
"DEVM TIME."

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