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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MICHAEL DEN Michael Den
Michael Den
Michael Den
Mr. Henderson Land Surveyor Den Nursery
D.D. Black Esqr. Town Clerk
Mr. John Lawrence
027 This name applies to that portion of a considerable ravine extending from the Lodge as far east as opposite to the college yards and lying all within the Polices of Brechin Castle.
ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT Michael Mount
Michael Mount
Mr. Henderson
Mr. Black, Town Clerk
027 High ground between the Turnpike Road and Skinner's Burn opposite "Bearhill" and within the policies of Brechin Castle. It is conclusive from the quotations given that a chapel dedicated to St. Michael stood hereabout, and it would seem the better arrangement to perpetuate the Chapel and Mount under the one name.
[Initialled] JB.

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St. Michael's Mount [notes]
"St. Michael's Mount" within the enclosures of
Brechin Castle opposite Bearehill gate was in the diocese
of Dunkeld & there the Bishop held consistorial courts.
The hollow adjoining St. Michael's Mount is called
Michael Den" Memorials of Angus & Mearns
Information from the late P. Chalmers

In 1442 John Thome Rector of Dunlappy is a witness to a deed
between David, Earl of Crawford and Thomas Archare canon of Dunkeld
dated "apud capellani Sancti Michael justa civitatem Brechinendem"
Mr. Henderson informs me that the late P. Chalmers Esqr. of Aldbar met
with it under the designation of "St Michael's Chapel of the Mount"
[Initialled] J.B. Lt.Col. [Lieutenant Colonel]

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