OS1/11/105/92

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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of HOLY ROOD CHAPEL Site of Holyrood Chapel
Site of Holyrood Chapel		 Mr. Matheson
Mr. Laing		 [Situation] At the South Side of Parliament House
This Chapel stood. at the South end of the Parliament [house] The Site of it was pointed out by Mr Matheson who saw part of the [Window] Standing,

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Parish of The City of Edinburgh

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? Holyrood Chapel - See Holyrood Street etc on Sheet 36
O,M,O [Ordnance Map Office]

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"In the lower church-yard at present denominated the
bacK Stairs stood the Chapel of Holyrood, wherein on the 12th.
of August in the year 1528 Walter Chapman founded a
chaplainry at the altar of Jesus Christ Crucified and
endowed it with his tenement in the Cowgate and anno
1579 Walter Balcanquell was collated thereto by the town
Council. In the neighbourhood of this chapel was a farm
house called St Giles's Grange",
Maitlands Hist [History] of
Edinburgh
Page 185

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Words lost in fold

This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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