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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Site of COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST MARY IN THE FIELDS | Site of Collegiate Church of St. Mary in the Fields | Dr [Doctor] Wilson Author of Memorials of Edinburgh in the olden times |
[Situation] In the Quadrangle of the College This church is described by Dr. [Doctor] Wilson as standing at the SW. [South West] corner of the quadrangle enclosed by the college occupying part of the site of the corner of the court yard or quadrangle. This Dr [Doctor] Wilson has been able to ascertain from old plans and other records |
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[Page] 67Parish of the City of Edinburgh
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" On the site of the University of Edinburgh stood of old a collegiate church which was consecrated to the Virgin; and called the church of St. Mary in the Field. The age of this foundation and the piety of the founder are equally forgotten. It had a provost eight chaplains and two choristers. Two additional chaplainries were endowed under James V one by James Laing a burgess of Edinburgh; and the other by Janet Kennedy the Lady Bothwell. In 1562 the magistrates applied to the Queen for the place Kirk Chambers and houses of the Kirk in the Field: to build a school. The queen assented; and they purchased in 1563; the right of the provost Penicuick; and in 1581 they acquired other rights when they obtained a charter for erecting the college. In the meantime at Kirk of Field was acted one of the most extraordinary tragedies that any age or any country has witnessed. In a house, standing at the Kirk in the field, in the night between the 9th and 10th of February 1567 was Darnley, the husband of Queen Mary assassinated, by Earl Bothwell who was encouraged to perpitrate so odious a deed, by the unscrupous factions who then domineered in Scotland ."
Chalmers Caledonia vol. [volume] 2 p. [page] 763
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