OS1/11/100/115

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MAGDALENE ASYLUM [continued from page 114] them, as an encouragement to industrious habits, one fourth share of the profits of their labour is paid to them in clothes and other requisites, the remainder falls to the institution. The other expenses are wholly defrayed by Contributions, donations, and legacies It is under the management of the Lord Provost and Sheriff, as Presidents a board of ordinary directors, secretary, treasurer, and trustees,
SHOEMAKERS' HALL (1667) Shoemakers Hall
Shoemakers Hall
Bailie Child
William Menelaws Canongate
[Situation] North side of canongate
An old house 4 stories high in which the shoemakers used to hold their meetings. It is now occupied by mechanics and others of different employments, over the entrance door is the shoemakers Arms cut in stone, and the figures 1667, it is the property now of different proprietors

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[Page] 115
Parish of Canongate

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(to be found [on the ground])

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 30
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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