OS1/11/105/209

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
OLD GREYFRIARS CHURCH (Ruins of) Old Greyfriars Church
Old Greyfriars Church
Mr. Fairbairn
Stat, Acct, [Statistical Account] 1845
[Situation] A Short distance N. E. [North East] of Heriot's Hospital
This building which is now in ruins was erected in 1612 according to historians, but on the [North gable] is the date 1614, in 1718 it was destroyed by fire, in Consequence of its spire having been Converted into a powder magazine, a [new] Church was attached to the West end of it during its repairs but the spire was dispensed with, it was unroofed together with the new Church in 1845 (and has been allowed to remain So since ) by the flue of a chimney being too hot, consequently ignited, The cemetery around these churches which was originally the garden to a monastery of Benedictines, Contains the ashes of several celebrated men, among these are Buchanan (Historian Allan Ramsay Principal Robertson, McKenzie and the martyrs of Charles II's [seconds] reign, and many distinguished men

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[Page] 209 138
Parish of the City of Edinburgh

[Note]
Note) in this Church the
Solemn leaque and
Covenant was Signed
A,D 1638

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This Name Book refers to Sheet 35 of the Edinburgh Town Plan at 1:1056 scale.

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