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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Site of BOW BUTTS [Brechin] | 027 | The Site of these Butts were pointed out to me by Mr. Henderson who remembers his father removing them in 1816. "In 1703 the Town Council strictly prohibit anyone from casting feal in the Den, unless for the repair of the Bow Butts, that is the butts erected in the time of James I for the practice of Archery, and retained as butts for ball shooting till levelled by Mr. Henderson Blacks Hist: [History] Brechin p [page] 126. |
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| HOSPITIUM OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS [Brechin] | 027 | This house was pointed out to me by Mr Black, who remembers a cross Vane on the roof - the old walls are considered to remain but the windows and shop front are entirely modernised.* * the situation agrees exactly with the description in the old Title Deeds as contained in the Charters of the Earls of Torpichen, the representative Superior. Within the Burgh there is a house said to have been a Hospitium of the Knights Templars, now appropriately used as the Crown Inn. In 1444 David Conan conveys to the Bishop the Templehill of Keithock (or Bothers) to be held of the Master of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, preceptor of Torpichen : Black's Histy. [History] Brechin. P. [Page] __ |
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| TEMPLE HILL | 027 | Mr Black also pointed out the Temple land at Keithock belonging to the Order. There were Chaplaincies dedicated to ... the Holy Cross, the last named supported by rents out of the Temple Hill of Keithock. "So far as I am aware the only monasteries of this order in Angus were at Brechin & Dundee. Jervise's Memorials Pages 451 and 470. |
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| BEARDIE'S WELL (Covered) | 027 | Mr Black (who is factor for the premises) pointed out to me the position of the well in the house and which he called to be covered in. An old large 3 storied house on the north side of the Street called the Nether Wynd (now ____) is pointed out as the residence of the Earls of Crawfurd, and a well on the property has borne from time immemorial the name of "Beardie's Well". |
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