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Description: 17thC tombstone inside the mausoleum of John Livingstone, 'an apothecary in Edinburgh', who fell victim to the Plague that devastated Edinburgh and Leith in the 1640s. The inscription reads: This Saint whos Corps lyes buried heir Let all posteritie admeir When judgments did this land surround He with God was walking found For which from midst of fers he's cround Heir to be interrd. Both he And friends by Providence agrie No age shal los his memorie His age 53. Died 1645
Title: Livingstone Mausoleum, Greenhill Edinburgh
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