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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Monastery or Friary of Franciscans (Continued) | [continued from page 65] the Houff in Barrack Street a few yards eastward along the south side of the burying-ground. The history of this house is involved in almost impenetrable [obscurity] insomuch that little more than a few probable conjectures can be advanced respecting it. The Reformation in Dundee was perfectly radical as indeed it could scarcely have been otherwise with so zealously active a citizen and champion of the new faith which the reformed doctrines were contemptously termed - as Provost James Haliburton to guide it a gentleman certainly qualified for the [high] office which he held. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + On the north side of this site of " Friars of Orders Grey" there is a large field denominated " the Meadows" which likely had at one time formed part of the conventual possessions. A fine and copious [fountain] of excellent water bursts forth at several places within it which is still as it formerly was called St Francis Well. Mackie's Hisory of Dundee pp. [pages] 118-120 |
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