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List of names as written	Various modes of spelling	Authorities for spelling	Situation	Description remarks
ST JAMES' SQUARE	St. James' Square	Corner TicKets Name on Lamp Posts William Ewing South St. James' Street		This is one of the first built squares in the New Town, It was finished and inhabited about the year 1778 or 9. The houses are well built and in good repair, some of them appropriated as hotels shops &c, the remainder occupied by professional gentlemen and other respectable families, In one of the houses, the Poet Burns resided for some months, with the aimiable Blacklock, This Square, South St. James St. & Place, are also Known by the name of Bunkershill from the circumstance that the foundation stone of its first building having been laid on the day when the news of the Battle of BunKershill, which took place on the 17th June 1775, reached Edinburgh, It is also said that when the builders was founding the house, they fell out among themselves, and before the ceremony was concluded, fell to and fought out the quarrel upon the Spot in the presence of a multitude of spectators,

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1851 - Sheet 29
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