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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Pade O'France Pade o' France
Pade o' France
Pade o' France
Rev. [Reverend] Charles Buchan D.D. [Doctor of Divinity]
Charles Brand Esqr.
A. Taylor Esqr.
020.04 Tradition says that about the year 1559.60: when Mary of Guise, the Queen Regent of Scotland, assisted by France with money and soldiers, endeavoured to secure herself in authority by diminishing the power of the scottish nobles, and increasing that of the Crown; that a battle was fought here between the contending parties.
Grave Leys Graveleys
Graveleys
Graveleys
Rev. [Reverend] Charles Buchan D.D. [Doctor of Divinity]
Charles Brand Esqr.
A. Taylor Esqr.
020.04 This name is applied to a cultivated field, situated between the "Pade o' France," and Broombank. The people in the neighbourhood say that at the time the Scottish North Eastern Railway, was making; in a cutting was found a strata; of earth resembling a trench and embankment. also a great quantity of human bones.

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