OS1/25/66/140
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Supposed Site of CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY [Perth] | [Continued] | says that he always heard as a tradition that the monastry was situated South side of the hospital several old inhabitants are of the Same opinion. |
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[Page] 140The Charter-House or Carthusian Monastry, this was the only monastry which the
Carthusians had in Scotland. It was Situated at the west end of the town near
to where the hospital now Stands. It was built or founded by King James I and
his Queen in the year 1429. The Original letter sent by the prior of the great Chartreux
in France addressed to that Monarch, and giving consent to the erection of a house
of the Carthusian order near Perth for thirteen monks with their Competent numbers
of servants is extent among the papers of the hospital, etc.
Its designation was 'The Prior and Convent of the house of the valley of virtue
of the Carthusian order near Perth,' In the Church which belonged to it there
were some royal Sepuchres. in which were interred King James I Jane his Queen
and Queen Margaret mother of James V.
New Stat. Acct. [New Statistical Account].
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