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Site of MONASTERY (Dominican or Black Friars) [Aberdeen] Site of Monastery (Dominican or Black Friars)
Site of Monastery (Dominican or Black Friars)
Site of Monastery (Dominican or Black Friars)
Site of Monastery (Dominican or Black Friars)
Kennedy's Annals of Aberdeen 1818
Book of Bon-Accord 1839
Revd. [Reverend] W D Strachan Gordon's Hospital
Courage's Brief Survey. 1856
075 This order of friars was first established at Aberdeen by King Alexander II in 1222 who bestowed upon them his Palace and garden situated on the North Side of the Schoolhill, for a Monastery and a Church, which was dedicated to St. John the Baptist. In ancient times it was the place of Sepulture of the family of the Earl Marischal, and continued to be so till the institution was suppressed at the Reformation. - By the great influence which these friars possessed among all ranks, they very soon acquired Considerable possessions in the town and in the Country. in Kintore, and the Parish of Banchory Devenick and Dunotter, And also annuities, which were given to them as donations, by benevolent individials, for pious purposes, and arose from various properties in the Town. King Alexander III. also allotted them an annuity from the fee farm of this borough. This grant was afterwards Confirmed to them by King David II. Robert III and James III. date of Charter September 30th 1477. The Convent appears to have stood about midway between the Schoolhill and Gordon's Hospital, and embracing all the ground lying between the Schoolhill. Woolmanhill Blackfriars street St Andrews street and Harriet street. but in January 4th 1560 it was so industriously demolished that no portion remains to be seen. Attached to the Monastery was a kiln, the roofless walls of which were in existance in 1661 In 1833 certain excavations brought to light the ruins of one of the buildings about Sixty feet in length and fronting the South. Among the Stones were discovered a fragment of Sandstone bearing in Saxon characters the word "Nostras" a thin brass plate, a Silver heart about an inch and a half in length an inch in breadth. and half an inch in thickness. it was hollow. and a small ring attached Showed that it had been worn suspended from the neck.

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