HISfORr of the SOCIETK 25 



ANTIQUITIES. 



The following letter from the Abbe Mann was read 18th T J 799- 



T & June 18. 



Jline 1799* Concerning the 



To the Prefident 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 extracts may not like- 

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

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

 their moft obedient humble fervant, 



T. A. MANN, F. R. & A.S. of London. 



Prague in Bohemia, May i. 1798. 



Extracta Manuscriptorum dg Carthufia Vallis Virtutum, in 

 Suburb ano Perthano. 



" Anno 1430, Jacobus I. Scotiae Rex, fundavit Domum Vir- 

 tutum in fuburbano Perthano. Oswald de Corde primus 

 Prior *." 



The Scots hiflorians 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 Colledtaneis Manufcriptis Petri de Wale, vol. i. p. 9. penes Carth. Bruxel- 

 lenfem. 



+ So Buchavnan. Stewart's Short Hiftorical and Genealogical Account, 

 p. 64. 65. Scottiih Coropend. p. 18, 



Chart reufe of 

 Perth. 



