James Carstairs, of Newgrange

Source: http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/charles-rogers/monuments-and-.... Merchant and magistrate of St. Andrews. Descended from the Carstairs family of Newgrange, Fifeshire.

Bailie James Carstairs died at St. Andrews. On his tombstone were inscribed these lines : Here lyes James Carstairs merchant and baillie of St. Andrews; who died 29 September 1671. And of his age 80.

" Reader, who on this stone doth cast thine eye, Do not forget the blessed memory Of Bailie James Carstairs; to whom God did impart A candid mind, without a double heart, To virtue, grace, and honesty inclin'd ; To all his friends most singularly kind ; He wisely did, with all men, follow peace ; At length expyr'd, full both of years and grace."