What is recorded here
This commemorative plaque records: Whiteford House (within Galloway's Entry) occupies the site of the Earl of Winston's mansion better known as my Lord Seytoun's Lugeing in the Cannongate. See Scott's "Abbot" vol.1 chapter xviii
Whiteford House stands on the site of a former mansion known as my Lord Seytoun's Lugeing, a significant historical structure in the Cannongate area mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in his novel "The Abbot."
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