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[Page] 133
Parish of Canongate

Paul's Work contind [continued from page 132]
Extract from Chalmer's Caledonia Vol. [Volume] 2 P [Page] 7

"In 1479 Thomas Spence the Bishop of
Aberdeen founded in Leith Wynd an Hospital for the reception of twelve poor
men and it was dedicated to the Virgin and was from this circumstance called
the Hospital of Our Lady. At the Reformation the Magistrates of Edinbh [Edinburgh]
acquired this hospital with its revenues from Mary Stewart under her general
grant of March 1567 and in 1619 they converted this hospital into a Workhouse
which they called Paul's Work a name that it still retains."

Transcriber's notes

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