Canongate, a large and ancient suburb of Edinburgh, comprising all the eastern part of the Old Town, and possessing, till 1856, the jurisdiction of a burgh of regality- See Edinburgh, and Jn. Mackay's History of the Burgh of Canongate (Edinb- 1879).
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