2$ HISrORr of the SOCIETT. 



Gratianopolim), Prior Carthufise Romse, et procurator generalis 

 ordinis ; alias Prior Sancli Spiritus Lugduni, ante ordinis in- 

 grefTum Baro. Sub Scotiae defectionem, Romam fe conferens, 

 atque epifcopali dignitate fe abdicari, impetrato a Summo Pon- 

 tifice (qui eum ad altiorem gradum promovere ftudebat) con- 

 fenfu, ad Majorem Carthufiam contendit, in qua monachus pro- 

 feffus ad annos aliquot quam humillime vixit, conferens fubin- 

 de ordines facros fuis confratribus. Miffus quoque fuit Lega- 

 tus ad Jacobum, Scotiae regem, quern ex facro fonte olim fufce- 

 perat, fcribitur rem prudenter fecifTe. Fuit aliquando Epifcopus 

 Vaffionenfis. 



N. B. The above particulars are all that I have found con- 

 cerning the Carthufian Order in Scotland. There appears no- 

 where the leaft trace or mention of any other Chartreufe having 

 ever exifled in that kingdom, befides the above Vale of Virtues 

 near Perth. 



To the above information by the Abbe Mann, a com- 

 munication from the Reverend James Scott, one of the mi- 

 nifters of Perth, and a learned Scotifh antiquary, enables us 

 to add, that the Chartreufe of Perth was a very confiderable 

 edifice, copied from the Grande Chartreufe in Dauphiny, though 

 on a fmaller fcale, and fituated at the weft end of the town, on 

 the fpot where the King's Hofpital now ftands. It therefore 

 occupied a beautiful fituation, and one not unworthy of a colo- 

 ny from the faireft feat of monaftic retirement. No vefliges of 

 the building now remain. 



The letter of the Prior of the Grande Chartreufe is ftill extant, 

 addreffed to James I. of Scotland, authoriling the ereclion of 

 this religious eftablifhment, and directing that the prior of the 

 Carthufian Monaftery of the Mount of Grace at Ingleby in York- 



fhire, 



