OS1/13/121/75

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PITREAVIE VAULT Pitreavie Vault
Pitreavie Vault
Pitreavie Vault
Rev [Reverend] P. Chalmers
Mr Kilgour
Inscription on Monument
035 [Situation] On the S. [South] side of the Nave of the Abbey church
On the south side of the Nave of the Abbey Old church, between three of the eastern buttresses is the burying vault of the Pitreavie family granted by Queen Anne of Denmark to Sir Henry Wardlaw Knight, and his descendants, Over the entrance is a Latin inscription, above which are the Wardlaw Arms on a shield, with "memento Mori" and below it are the words "Ultima Domus"
BEEALLEY GARDEN Bee-alley Garden
Bee-alley Garden
Bee-alley Garden
Bee-alley Garden
Mr Matheson (High Street)
Mr Matheson (Factor & occupier)
Chalmers Hist [History] of Dunfermline
James Hunt Esq
035 [Situation] S [South] of the New Burying Ground
A good vegetable garden adjoining the south eastern walls of the Abbey how it obtained the name cannot be well ascertained, It is supposed to have been the private Garden of the Abbots, occupier Mr Matheson & property of James Hunt Esq

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For situation see Town Plan - http://maps.nls.uk/view/74415326

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