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Friaries Virtually half of Scotland's friaries, representing five orders, were founded in the last seventy years ofthe thirteenth century, the century which saw both the founding of the orders of friars and their remarkable growth. After the first era of enthusiasm, it seems, the fourteenth century saw very few foundations (some caution is necessary because many dates of foundation are not known). In the fifteenth century there seems to have been a renewed interest, just over hal f the new houses being accounted for by the reformed version of the Franciscans, the Observants, encouraged by royal patronage. The small number offoundations ofany order after 1500 suggests that enthusiasm was waning. The aim of the friars was to preach, and therefore friaries were almost always in centres of population -hence the concentration in the central belt and in the eastern coastal strip as far north as Inverness. With the exception of Kingussie, the Highlands and Islands had none. But this does not mean that individual friars were not seen in these areas, for they were highly mobile. Dominicans can be traced in the Hebrides in the thirteenth century, and served as bishops of Argyll for more than a century from 1264 onwards. \:1)] Perth ~ upar ~ ~.. + tirling nverkelthlng Luffness Glasgow ·.Haddin~ . Ed~bur9h Igto~~Berwlck upon Tweed +Dominican • Franciscan kms • Carmelite 0 2,5 50 75 100 ... Augustinian I ,, , , o Friars of the sack 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 miles NFS Friaries founded in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries 342

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