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Blue Bell Inn was the Old Magazine of the Castle. It
had St. Clement's Church-yard to the west, and the Tod's
burn to the east. The whole south side of the High
Street and Nethergate, west to the old chapel, opposite
to the churches, still holds of the Duke of Douglas, now
Lord Douglas, as proprietor of Dudhope, who has also
the right of the passage from the Craig to the county of
Fife,* and the customs for eight days in the time of the
First Fair, or Lady Fair of Dundee. Till 1747, when
heritable jurisdictions were abolished, they took the
command of the town, and kept the keys of the pri-
son for eight days. The last of the Scrymgeours of
Dudhope married Graham of Claverhouse, who got the
title of Viscount Dundee, — and was called the Bloody
Graham, from his cruelty to the poor Covenanters in
Charles II.'s time. His Town-house was at the head of
St. Margaret's close, near the old Mint. The Houff, or
present burying-ground in Dundee, lies on the north side
of the town, and on the south west end of the common
Meadows. It was originally the garden to the Grey-
friars, whose last chapel still stands, and is called Miln
Hill's Lodging, and was sometime ago a Methodist Meet-
ing-house. The Houff was granted by Queen Mary for
a burying-ground. There were no stones or monuments
before 1560, except one which was brought from the
Blackfriars' burying-ground, immediately west from the
present one. It is a small square stone, having on the
east, Wm. Renny — west, Arthur Wcmyss — south, Ma-
tilda Renny — and north, Ann Alison. There are two
flat stones near the middle of the north dyke, — the one
dated 1584, James Fletcher; and the other only the date
1584 : also one dated 1682 on Isobel Richardson, spouse
to Geo. Spence, — and one on the west side of the west
door, dated 1605, on Andrew Christie.
* His Lordship has since, with a disinterestedness which does him great
honour, relinquished his right in favour of the Ferry Trustees.