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Town of Dundee -- Sheet 54 - 9 No. 4

[Black Friars' Monastery continued]
"On the west side of Franciscan Monastery and separated from it by the "fratrum venalium" -
Friar's Vennel, afterwards the Burial Wynd, and now Called Barrack Street there stood a Convent
of "fratres predicatores" - Friars Preachers, Black or Dominican Friars - the erection of which is attributed
by tradition to Andrew Abercromby a native citizen but without any allusion to time. The endowments
and properties which this monastery possessed are unknown, yet it may be supposed that the field
immediately on the north side of its site Called the "Laigh Ward" or Low Hospital Ward and perhaps
the ground or part of it occupied by gardens and part of the railroad beyond that had belonged
to it. This house with its precincts including gardens and orchards extended downwards along the west
side of the Vennel to the town wall which separated it from Argylegate now called the Overgate
and thence westward to the Tent or Windmill Hill. Some old records yet extant mention the
convent as a boundary to several properties situated both in the Vennel and in Argylegate
The number of brethren which this Friary contained is unknown, none of the records belonging
to it being in existence.
There was a gate in the town wall betwixt this Convent and that of the Franciscans which
was called the Friar's Port."
Mackie's History of Dundee, p. [page] 120