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Parish of the City of Edinburgh

The following notice is from Arnot's History of Edinburgh Page 261
"The City, (that is, the ancient royalty independent of the suburbs) was afterwards A.D. 1625 formally
divided into parishes but these were reduced to 4 in number and their different limits described
The churches, in the respective parishes being insufficient to accommodate the citizens new churches
were built and the town divided into Six parishes A.D. 1641 but the whole ancient royalty is now considered
as one district called the parish of St. Giles; and upon the enlargement of the City the extended royalty
was annexed to the same parish,"

Transcriber's notes

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