OS1/11/105/191 | ScotlandsPlaces

List of names as written	Various modes of spelling	Authorities for spelling	Situation	Description remarks
ADVOCATE'S LIBRARY	Advocate's Library Advocate's Library Advocate's Library	The Librarian Mr. Patterson Town surveyor Post Office Directory		[Situation] At the East side of Parliament House One part of this library is contained [in] a large plain building on the west [---] & adjoining the parliament House &c [---] to the South side of the Signet Hall, [---] apartment is entered from the [great] Hall of the Parliament House but [---] greater part of the library is [contained] in apartments below the [parliament] House which is entered by a staircase [leading] down from the above mentioned apartments [---] under apartments of the Parliament House are [---] interesting as the place where the Scottish Privy [Council] used to meet and where they interrogated tortured and comdemned the adherents of the Covenants. Here are kept the manuscripts from which of late years many curious [---] illustrative of Scottish history & Customs have been drawn and here [---] are many ancient illuminated missals & books of the holy scriptures besides many chartularies of religious houses, early specimens of the [---]phical art, a nunnery a large collection of coins and medals &c, This [library] was founded in 1682 by the Kings advocate Sir George McKenzie and it contains 148,000 printed volumes and 2000 manuscripts.

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Parish of the City of Edinburgh

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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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