OS1/11/105/164

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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CATTLE MARKET Cattle Market See Name Book Sheet 30. [Situation] A Short distance W. [West] of Heriot's Hospital
Descriptive Remarks in Name Book Sheet 30.
THE TAILORS' HALL The Tailors' old Hall
The Tailors' old Hall		 Mr. B. Parker
Allan McUae		 [Situation] On the S. [South] side of Cowgate
A house four Stories high, It was The Hall of the incorporated Trade of Tailors, but was purchased some time ago by Mr. Campbell who has added it, to his brewery - over an Archway leading into the Court in which the Hall is situated is the following inscription inscribed with the Tailors Coat of Arms,
"Almightie God who founded built and provided this work with blessings, make it abound Date 1644
EARL OF GALLOWAY HOUSE Earl of Galloway's House Mr Thomson Tenant
Mr. Marshall LawnmarKet		 [Situation] In the Horse Wynd
A pretty large house in middling repair, once the Town Residence of the Earls of Galloway. The present tenant Mr. Thomson Supposed it to be about 200 years old if not more,

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Parish of the City of Edinburgh

Tailors' Hall [note]
No date can be put to this object as it is evident from the
[following] notice that the hall existed prior to 1644
The date over the exterior gateway of the Taylor's Hall towards
the Cowgate is 1644 but it is ascertained that the Corporation had
its hall here at an earlier period. An assembly of between two and
three hundred Clergymen was held here on Tuesday, the 27th of February
1638 in order to Consider the national Covenant which was presented
to the public next day, in the Greyfriars Church. We are informed
by the Earl of Rothes in his relations of the transactions of this period in
which he bore so distinguished a part that some few objected to certain
points but being taken aside into the garden attached to this and there lectured
on the necessity of mutual Concession for the sake of the general Cause
they were soon conciliated. This garden still exists. The hall was afterwards
employed as a Theatre from about 1727 till 1753"
see chambers ReeKiana
Pages 296-7

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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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