OS1/11/105/198
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| BARKER'S LAND | BarKers Land | Bernard BarKer proprietor | [Situation] On the N [North] side of Cowgate A large new house in the North side of the Cowgate, created by Bernard BarKer, who has given it the above name, it is four stories high tenanted by a BroKer and Mechanics, |
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| Site of GREY FRIARS' MONASTERY 15th Century [Grass Market] | Monastery of the Grey Friars Site of Greyfriars' Monastery Site of Greyfriars' Monastery |
Regions antiquities of Edinr [Edinburgh] Mr. Campbell recorder Mr. R. Chambers Publisher |
[Situation] Near the South side of the Grass Market This Monastery once stood at the head of the Grass MarKet in or about Burts (now Wardens) Airds and other closes in the neighbourhood The new Greyfriar's Cemetery was the vegetable Garden belonging to the Monastery, nothing remains of this once extensive Institution, the place where it stood has been long occupied with houses four stories high, which are inhabited by poor working people The Monastery was demolished at the Commencement of the reformation |
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[Page] 198Parish of the City of Edinburgh
"The Monastery of the Grey Friars stood in the Grass MarKet some
where between Heriots Bridge and the Head of the Cowgate where Burts
[---] Airds Closes and others in that neighbourhood now are. The ground called
[---] Greyfriars' Churchyard was then only part of their gardens crowning the
picturesque slope at the bacK of their monastery, and stretching away
[---] the west end of the GrassmarKet."
Lectures on the religious antiquities of Edinburgh 1847 vol. [volume] 2 p. [page] 73
[note] should not this name be on the plan OMO [Ordnance Mapping Office]
The Gray Friars were at length fully settled here in 1446
Chalmers Caledonia Vol. [Volume] 2. P. [Page] 760
This house was situated on the southern side of the Grass marKet almost
opposite the West bow Street, the gardens whereof were by an act of the town council
[in] the year 1561 converted into a Burying place.
maitland's History of Edinburgh Page 189
Transcriber's notes
Words lost in foldThis Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056
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