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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Supposed Site of St. Mary Magdelene's Convent or Chapel (Continued) | [continued from page 62] A cloister of Magdalenes stood near the river at the south west side of the town where a large irregular field in the vicinity of its site which cannot now be accurately pointed out has from them the name of Magdalene Yard or Green and this affords some [ground] to suppose that it had belonged in property to the nuns. Many years ago when the foundations were excavating for the house erected by the late Bailie Andrew Peddie on the north verge of the Green and at the foot of the lane called the Step Row the labourers dug up several fragments of statues among which there was a finely executed [head] almost the size of life. This head was long in our possession and from the fact of these relics being found at that place we are tempted to conclude that the site of the nunnery was where Mr. Peddies house stands.* The use and superiority of the Magdalene Green is vested in the town Council for the common use and in the University of St. Andrews which is said to derive an annual of £5 — whether Scots or English is not stated but most probably the more for the grazing it affords. A row of march stones but now greatly [curtailed in] number from what we have known there runs along the side of the road that bounds the northern side of the Green on which the armorial Saltier of St Andrews and the date 1619 were rudely scratched. There is one which bears the lilies of Dundee and the date 1749 in a tolerable style of sculpture as also another with the same bearing and the former date but very little better than those of St. Andrews. Nothing more is known concerning this establishment." Thomson's Hist. [History] of Dundee p. [page] 329 |
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[Page] 63* Note. Particular research and enquiry have been made concerning the fragments of statues &c,
said to have been found but no one in the locality nor in the town could be found
that even remembers to have seen any of these except Mr. Thomson, And Mr. Charles Rogers who
remembers the time when Bailie Peddies house was built says that the above statement is
not worthy of credit.
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