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The Dominican or Black Friars' monastery. This the most ancientof the monasteries
in Perth or its neighbourhood was founded by Alexander. II. King of Scotland, in 1231
to whom he granted the whole extensive garden grounds which was afterwards Known by
the name of the King's garden and also the Gilten herbor as well as a Conduit of water
from the mill-lade of four inches in diameter. The building stood on the north side
of the town without the walls on that portion of ground now occupied as gardens
behind the houses of Athole Place and the works of Perth New Gas Company. This
district of the town is still called the Black Friars. It seems to have been a Stately
and Convienient fabric and Contained besides the Cloisters in which the friars
resided extensive and Commodius apartments, in which the Scottish Kings often
lodged previous to the murder of the most accomplished and talented of our
Sovereigns James I.
Attached to the monastery was a church dedicated to the Virgin and to St. Dominic the
founder of the order. In this church conventions of the nobility and clergy were often held
several distinguished persons were also interred in it among these were Elizabeth Mure
queen of Robert II. Alexander third Earl of Huntly together with some of the Earls of Errol
and members of their family. etc.
Marshalls Hist [History] of Perth

Transcriber's notes

This page is a further continuation of the descriptive remarks concerning the Blackfriar's monastery from pages 54 and 57.