Maps of Leith in the 16th century
This map was done in approximately 1530 and is based on the memory of Alexander Alesius who left Scotland because of his Protestant beliefs. The map appears in the Cosmologue of approximately 1550
The map below is Leith in 1573 and is the rhs of the map of the Siege of Edinburgh Castle which took place in that year
this is the lhs of the same map
