OS1/11/105/141

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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MARY KING'S COTTAGE Mary King's Cottage David Cumming Agent [Situation] On the E. [East] side of Mary King's Close
An old house one story [---] situated on the N. [North] East side of Mary Kings Close from which the cottage has taken its name. [---] in bad repair, and [occupied] by poor working people.
Site of TOWN GUARD HOUSE City Guard House site of
City Guard House site of
The Town Guard House		 Mr. Marshall Lawn Market
Mr. McGraw George St.
Chambers ReeKina map attached		 [Situation] In High Street
This was an old building used by the City Guard previous to the year [---] It stood in the centre of the High Street opposite to Bells Wynd. "The Town Guard" says Mr. [Chambers] in his traditions of Edinburgh, [---] previous to 1785 a Guard House in the middle of the High Street the black hole of [which] had rather a bad character among the [bucks] and the frail ladies,"

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[Page] 141
Parish of the City of Edinburgh


Site of Town Guard [note]
Doctor Wilson, Secretary of the Antiquarian
Society, States that the Town Guard house was erected in or
about Cromwell's time, as it was in existence when
he visited Scotland,

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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