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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of CONVENT OF ST MARY OF PLACENTIA Site of Convent of St. Mary de Placentia
Site of Convent of St. Mary de Placentia
Priory of St. Marie of Placentia
Convent of St. Mary of Placentia
Priory of Nuns of St. Mary of Placentia
Convent of St. Mary of Placentia
Mr. Moor Proprietor Pleasance
Mr. Liston Rate Collector Canongate
Lectures on the Christian Antiquities of Edinb. [Edinburgh]
Stat, Acct, [Statistical Account] 1845
Fullarton's Gazetteer
Chalmer's Caledonia vol. [volume] 2 p. [page] 761
[Situation] West Side of Pleasance, Adjoining Surgeon Square.
The Site of an ancient [Convent] or Priory of nuns which [is] dedicated to St. Mary of [Placentia] The date & [founding] of which is not [known] The Site is now occupied [by] two houses which are [tenanted] by work people & part of them is occupied by [the] proprietor of the property. Title deeds of the property [?] recognised as the site [of the] Convent of Sancta Mary [?] Placentia and also it has [been] proved before the Court of [?] about the year 1818 in a law [?] which instituted at the instance of [?] incorporation of bakers of the burgh of Canongate against [?] proprietors father in which the bakers of Canongate endeavoured to [?] that the property was part of the burgh of Canongate but failed [?] having been made it was plainly proved that the above mentioned [?] Stood upon the Site of the ancient Convent which was supprised at the [?] of the Reformation
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Parish of St. Cuthberts

[Notes]
G. [German] Text
2 West

Transcriber's notes

This Name Book refers to Sheet 36 of the Edinburgh Town Plan at 1:1056 scale.
Note the name Site of Convent of St. Mary of Placentia does not appear on the 6 inch map.

Some words in the Description are concealed by the fold in the page.

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Douglas Montgomery

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