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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Chapel of St. Roque (Continued) | [continued from page 41] This chapel stood without the Cowgate Port beside the Bitter Burn between the Denbridge and the East Port where a steep lane connecting King Street the Cowgate and Seagate has from it the name of St. Roque's Lane vulgarised into Semirookie. It is understood to have been on the east side of the burn and consequently on the lands of Wallace Craigie which at and before the Reformation were the property of Bruce of Earl's Hall in the parish of Leuchars and thus from being private property had escaped being conveyed to the town as its name does not occur in the ancient rent roll There was a burying-ground in the vicinity of the site but as the place was not far distant (Peep-o'-Day) [from] where the booths were erected for the accommodation of those who were infected with the plague in the sixteenth century it is probable that many if not all of such as died of that distemper were buried here. It is also probable that these interments were the cause of a cemetery being here from the circumstance of the neighbourhood being in some degree esteemed consecrated ground by the erection of the Chapel and it is very likely that these were the only interments that had taken place at this spot. The site of the burying-ground is now occupied by Wishart Church and other buildings. Thomson's Hist. [History] of Dundee. p. [page] 317-8 |
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