Below is a line-by-line transcription of the Muir monument
next to the parish church of Mauchline:

ERECTED
IN MEMORY OF
MATTHEW MUIR
WHO DIED 21th JUNE 1838
AGED 57 YEARS
AND
JANET WATT

HIS SPOUSE DIED 26th
APRIL 1840 AGED 53 YEARS
AND THEIR CHILDREN
GEORGE DIED 11th DEC
1816 AGED 8 MONTHS
MATTHw died 16th JUNE
1818 AGED 8 YEARS
JANET DIED 26th JAN
1831 AGED 17 YEARS
ROBt DIED 31st MARCH
1852 AGED 18 YEARS
ALSO OF THEIR AUNT
JANET MUIR
WHO DIED SEPT 1851
AGED 67 YEARS
JAMES M. MUIR
DIED 25th JULY 1861
AGED 55 YEARS
IN REST [ST????] VICTORIA

 The obverse side reads:

 

 

ERECTED BY

MATTHEW MUIR

MELBOURNE

JANE ALLISON

HIS INFANT DAUGHTER

DIED 12 JULY 1865



Transcription of the 1749 Dissolution of Copartnery

Be it known to all men by these presents that wee Walter Brock John
Anderson and James Wardrop merchants in Glasgow and James Smith weaver
there whereas by contract of copartnery entered into betwixt us bearing
date at Glasgow the twenty sixth day of August seventeen hundred and
fourty years Wee thereby became bound to undertake and carry on a joint
trade and concern in company for manufactoring and selling of Tartan for
the space of Twelve years commencing from the first da of September then
next In the terms and under the rules and regulations stipulate by the
said contract hereby referred to Joint consequence whereof wee did
accordingly carry on the said copartnery from the commencement thereof
by contract till the first day of July seventeen hundred and forty six
when by a synd minute in the company sederence book wee did unanimously
agree to break up of concern and Since that time wee have divided the
company stock and sold off the outstanding debts to the said John
Anderson and thereby finished the said Copartnery And it being just &
reasonable that wee and each of us should be discharged by one another
in all premises Therefore wee the said Walter Brock John Anderson James
Wardrop and James Smith all with one consent Do by these presents exoner
quitclaim and forever discharge one another of the said copartnery for
maunfacturing and selling of Tartan and whole transaction thereof bygone
since the commencement of said contract and of
James Smith
James Wardrop
Walter Brock
John Anderson

2/ Of the said contract of copartnery itself for the pars thereof yet to
run as well as these past and whole clauses regulations conditions and
obligations therein contained with all and whosoeven following or
competent to follow thereupon Which discharge we oblige us our heirs and
successors to warrand there unto to others at all hands and against all
deed by as law will Saving and reserving always to the John Anderson the
outstanding debts yet resting and owing to the said company assigned to
him by the other three partners by asignation of the date thereof
Consenting to the registration hereof in the books of Council and
Session and any others competent for preservation and if need be That
letters of executorials of herning upon Six days and yrs needful May
thereupon pass in usual form and Constitute.

In witness whereof Wee Subscribe these
presents Consisting of this & the preceeding page wrote upon Stamp paper
by Robert Barclay writer in Glasgow at Glasgow the Eighteenth day of May
seventeen hundred and fourty nine years- Before these witnesses Robert
Brock and Andrew Mitchelhills both merchants in Glasgow.

Ro: Brock witness James Smith
Andr. Mitchelhills witness James Wardrop
Walter Brock
John Anderson