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ANTIQ.UITIES. 



The following letter from the Abbe Mann was read i8th ^*799- 



^ ^ June 18. 



June 1799* Concerning the 



Chartrtufe of 

 Perth. 



To the Prejident and Members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



The following few notes, concerning the Chart reufe of Perth, 

 of no merit but as they regard an exiguous part of the Scotifh 

 hiftory, were made in the Auftrian Netherlands, from original 

 manufcripts now fwallowed up by the revolution of thofe coun- 

 tries, and for ever loft. That thefe fhort extraifls may not like- 

 wife fall into oblivion in a foreign country, they are offered, 

 with great refpedl, to the learned Royal Society of Scotland, by 

 their moft obedient humble fervant, 



T. A. MANN, F.R. & A.S. ofLondon. 



Prague in Bohemia, May i. 1798. 



ExTRACTA Manuscriptorum de Carthufia Vallis Virtutum, in 

 Suburbano Perthano. 



" Anno 1430, Jacobus 1, Scotise Rex, fundavit Domum Vir- 

 tutum in fuburbano Perthano. Oswald de Corde primus 

 Prior *." 



The Scots hiftorians fay that King James I. of Scotland 

 founded with great cofl and magnificence the Carthufian mona- 

 ftery near Perth, and endowed it with large revenues ; and alfb, 

 that he was buried in the church thereof f . 



D 2 " OSWALDUS 



• Ex Colleftanels Manufcriptis Petri de Wale, vol. i. p. 9. penes Carth. Bruxel- 

 lenfem. 



+ So BucHANNAN. Stewart's Short Hiilorical and Genealogical Account, 

 p. 64. 65. Scottiih Compend. p. 1 8. 



