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"King James IV. erected there a yard or dock for Shipbuilding and a harbour for the reception
of vessels from which it received the appellation of The Newhaven. And houses being built for the
accommodation of Ship-wrights, Mariners, &c, a chapel was erected and dedicated to the Virgin Mary
and St. James, to accommodate them in the performance of their religious duties. But the former
giving way to the latter, it went by the appellation of St. James's Chapel as appears by a deed
of resignation of the said chapel into the hands of King James V. by Sir James Cowie Chaplain
thereof On the twenty eight of April anno 1508. However the village was denominated Our Lady;
Port of Grace alias Newhaven, The Edinburghers apprehensive that this Newhaven or Port might
be prejudicial to theirs of Leith purchased of the said King, the said Newhaven, and town,
together with all their rights and privileges which he conveyed to them by his grant of the 9th of
March 1510, and the said Chapel being dissolved at the reformation of religion in Scotland, the
profits thereof sometime after as already mentioned were taken from the minister of St Cuthbert's
Parish and added to the incumbents Stipends of North Leith. The area of the said Chapel, the
ruins where of are still to be seen at the western end of the village is converted into a cemetery for the
use of the inhabitants,"
Maitlands History of Edinburgh Page 499