By
his side was found a bundle of papers. Among them was a letter from
Melfort, bidding him be sure that both he and James would feel
themselves bound by no promise of toleration circumstances had induced
them to make. Well might Balcarres, who knew his friend's disposition
better than Melfort, tell James how such foolish and disingenuous
dealing had grieved Dundee and all who wished honestly to the
cause.[106]
Dundee's body, wrapped in a plaid, was carried to the castle, and a few
days later buried in the old church of Blair. In 1852 some bones,
believed to be his, were removed from Blair to the Church of Saint
Drostan in the parish of Old Deer, in Aberdeenshire; and eleven years
later a window of stained glass was placed in the same church, bearing,
on a brass plate in the window-sill, this inscription: "Sacred to the
memory of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, who died in the
arms of victory, and whose battle-cry was 'King James and the Church of
Scotland!'"
As no stone was ever known to mark his first grave; there is, of course,
ample room for the incredulous to smile over this late tribute to his
memory. But in truth the shadow of doubt broods over him in death as in
life. It is certain only that he received his death-wound on the field
of battle, and in the moment of victory.
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