King James V1 Hospital Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of King James VI Hospital on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire. This Scottish hospital was founded by a Royal Charter granted on 9th August 1569 by James Stewart, Earl of Moray, Regent for King James VI. It was granted all the properties and revenues of the various altars, chapels and monasteries in Perth, as well as the properties and revenues in the burgh belonging to monasteries elsewhere. The Minister and Kirk Session of St John's Kirk were appointed the managers of the Hospital on behalf of the poor, maimed, weak, distressed persons, orphans and fatherless chidren in the burgh, and they were to choose a Master of the Hospital annually to administer the funds. On 29th July 1587, King James VI, having attained his majority, granted the Hospital a new charter, which confirmed the grants to the Hospital made in the previous charter. The present building was built between 1749 and 1750. The building ceased being used as hospital in 1814. King James I, who had spent nearly 20 years as a prisoner in the Tower of London, was murdered by rebel nobles at the Perth Charterhouse, the Carthusian monastery which he had founded eight years before his death. A memorial at the corner of King Street and Hospital Street in Perth marks the fact that James I is buried in the area. The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland for 1443 note the payment of £90 to cover the costs of a knight of the Order of St John who had returned it to the Charterhouse from the Island of Rhodes where his embalmed heart was likely taken on pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

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