Donald Cargill
We love visiting the often overlooked and not so well known locations. Like this memorial to the Rev Donald Cargill at Thankerton, South Lanarkshire. It’s located next to Covington Mill, where he was captured by government troops in July 1681. He was later executed in Edinburgh. Wording on the memorial reads:
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
DONALD CARGILL
THE CELEBRATED COVENANTER
WHO WAS TAKEN PRISONER
AT COVINGTON MILL 11TH JULY
AND SUFFERED WITH
TRIUMPHANT COURAGE AT
THE CROSS OF EDINBURGH
27TH JULY 1681
THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY
THE COVINGTON PARISH CHURCH
BIBLE CLASS AND A FEW FRIENDS