Old photograph of The King James VI Hospital in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The King James VI Hospital in Perth was first founded by a Royal Charter on August 9th 1569 by the young infant king’s regent, the Earl of Moray, and reconfirmed by the king himself on July 29th 1587. Its given remit was to raise revenue on behalf of the burgh’s poor from lands previously held by the church in the town prior to the Scottish Reformation in 1560, to act as both a feudal superior and as a charitable institution. The new protestant church would oversee the institution, with the day to day work carried out by an annually elected Hospital Master, whose key duty was to collect the rents and feu duties payable to the Hospital by the many tenants and tradesmen residing in the lands concerned.
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