James Morton
The name James Morton is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Greyfriars private cemetery, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
There are 466 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
James Morton was buried in 1581. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
James Morton is listed on the GPR grave numbered 138797.
James Morton is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
James Morton has the record number 294943 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 23 June 2011
There are images available for the monument listing James Morton (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against James Morton record:
Morton was at one time Chancellor under Mary Queen of Scots but he espoused the cause of the Reformers and strongly supported alliance with Protestant England rather than with Catholic France Regent of Scotland from 1572 to 1578 he tried to rebuild episcopacy on the basis of Knoxs system of superintendents His downfall was brought about the proFrench Duke of Lennox Beheaded by the Maiden a device similar to the later guillotine – his body was buried in the kirkyard while his head was fixed to the City Gate A small pillar with the letters J E M marks the grave copying the wooden markers which were in use at the time