Margaret Wilson (Scots mairtyr)
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The Wigtown Mairtyrs Monument in the Auld Toun Cemetery, Stirling, depicts Margaret Wilson readin the Bible wi her young sister Agnes, watched ower bi a despairin gairdian aungel.
Margaret Wilson (c. 1667 – 11 Mey 1685), thegither wi Margaret McLachlan, wis a young Scots Covenanter, frae Wigtown in Scotland executit bi drounin for refusin tae sweir an aith declarin James VII (James II o Ingland) as heid o the kirk.