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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Monastery or Friary of Franciscans (Continued) | [continued from page 65] the Houff in Barrack Street a few yards eastward along the south side of the burying-ground. The history of this house is involved in almost impenetrable [obscurity] insomuch that little more than a few probable conjectures can be advanced respecting it. The Reformation in Dundee was perfectly radical as indeed it could scarcely have been otherwise with so zealously active a citizen and champion of the new faith which the reformed doctrines were contemptously termed - as Provost James Haliburton to guide it a gentleman certainly qualified for the [high] office which he held. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + On the north side of this site of " Friars of Orders Grey" there is a large field denominated " the Meadows" which likely had at one time formed part of the conventual possessions. A fine and copious [fountain] of excellent water bursts forth at several places within it which is still as it formerly was called St Francis Well. Mackie's Hisory of Dundee pp. [pages] 118-120 |
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Ordnance Survey - Angus county, OS Name Books - Forfar (Angus) county - Volume 27 - Town of Dundee, OS1/14/27
This volume contains information on place names found in the Forfarshire town of Dundee.
Ordnance Survey - Angus county
Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Angus, which is in the east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.