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List of names as written	Various modes of spelling	Authorities for spelling	Situation	Description remarks
TOLBOOTH (1590) [Musselburgh]	Tolbooth Tolbooth	Adam Gordon Town Clerk William Bourhill		[Situation] On the N. [North] side of High St. An ancient edifice in the Gothic Style Surmounted on the west end by a spire, with an ancient looking clock. It answers the purpose of a prison for debtors &c. It is said to have been built Shortly after the Reformation, from the materials of the Celebrated Chapel of Loretto. "The chapel of Loretto underwent a speedy repair but what war & wasting fire had spared was soon destined to utter demolition in the zeal of the reformation; and in 1590 the materials of that edifice to which so many thousand pilgrimages had for centuries been made were carried away for the construction of the present Tolbooth adjoining the more modern Town-hall and assembly Room.

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Parish of Inveresk

88 - Tolbooth (1590)

This Name Book refers to Musselburgh 1853 - Sheet 08
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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