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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
INDEPENDENT CHAPEL [Roxburgh Place] Independent Chapel.
Independent Chapel.
Hugh Brown
William Munro.
[Situation] On the West side of Roxburgh Place
A large plain stone building belonging to the independants Number of sittings is 950 all of which are free the average attendance at divine worship is 600. Number of congregation is about 350. The minister is the Revd. [Reverend] Henry Wright whose stipend is £200 per annum there is raised by voluntary subscription by this congregation about £460 for various religious purposes. It is situated in Roxburgh Place.
JOHN KNOX'S CORNER John Knox's Corner
John Knox's Corner
Mr. Wilson John Knoxs House
Mr. Liston Canongate
[Situation] At the Nether Bow Port
This name applies to a part of the High Street at the Corner of John Knox's House where this house forms a remarkable projection into the Street.

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Parish of the City of Edinburgh

[Note below entry for Independent Chapel]
1150 on plan

Transcriber's notes

This Name Book refers to Sheet 36 of the Edinburgh Town Plan at 1:1056 scale.
Note the names Independent Chapel and John Knox's Corner do not appear on the 6 inch map.

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