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Black plaque № 31383

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Advocate's Close. Residence of Lord Advocate Sir James Stewart 1692 - 1713 also Andrew Crosbie the jovial "Counsellor Pleydell". Earlier Sir John Scougal painter of William III and Queen Mary. West stands mansion of Bishop Bothwell died 1593.

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Source: Open Plaques. Geographic data via OpenStreetMap.

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