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Parish of St. Cuthberts

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"About 60 yards from the south eastern angle of the wall of Edinburgh, on the western side of the [Street] denominated the Pleasants was situated the Priory of Nuns Called Sancta Maria de Placentia so [named] from a City & Convent of those appellations in Italy; and from which the Street wherein it stood [?] called the Pleasants but at what time or by whom the Said Monastery was founded [we cannot] learn no more than I can the amount of its revenues",
Maitlands History of Edinburgh Page 176

There was another Convent dedicated to St. Mary of Placentia in the Situation now Called the Pleasance
Stat, Acct, [Statistical Account] of Edinb. [Edinburgh] 1845

"We have another monument of St. Marie in the Street which runs from the foot of St. Mary's Wynd [?] the Southeast. There was once a convent of nuns in Called the Priory of St. Mary of Placentia [since] the name of Pleasance is derived, It stood on the west side about 60 yards from the Cowgate at the Southeast corner of the City wall. A dark veil hangs over its history. But it is not [incapable] that it may have owed its existence in some way to the Crusades."
Lectures on the Christian antiquities of Edinburgh vol. [volume] 2 p. [page] 53

Transcriber's notes

This Name Book refers to Sheet 36 of the Edinburgh Town Plan at 1:1056 scale.
Note the name Site of Convent of St. Mary of Placentia does not appear on the 6 inch map.

Some words in the Description are concealed by the fold in the page.