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List of names as written	Various modes of spelling	Authorities for spelling	Situation	Description remarks
FORMER PLACE OF PUBLIC EXECUTION [Grass Market]	The Gallows Stone The Gallows Stone Former place of execution Place of public Execution	Mr. Hendrie Mr. Richardson GrassmarKe Chambers Reekiana McDowalls Guide		[Situation] On the East end of Grass Market About the Centre at the East end of the GrassmarKet is a Cross made by an arrangement of the paving Stones, formerly there was a massive blocK of sandstone having a quadrangular hole in the middle, being the Stone which served as a socKet for the gallows, when this was the Common place of execution, This place became the regular scene of executions after the restoration and Continued till the year 1784, most of the hundreds of Covenanters who Suffered in Edinburgh, during the reigns of Charles II and James II breathed their last pious aspiration at this Spot, but several of the most notable including the marquis and Earl of Argyle, were executed at the cross, This was the Scene of the Porteous riot in 1736 and of the Subsequent murder of Porteous by the mob, The rioters wishing wishing to dispatch him as near to the place of his alleged crime as possible, selected for the purpose a dyer's pole which on the South Side of the Street exactly opposite to the Gallows

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Parish of the City of Edinburgh

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

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