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tifmen. After undergoing various calamities incident to thefe
pious warriors, on his return to his native.country he was nearly
perilhing by ihip-wreck in fight of this place; when vowing to
«reft a temple to the Virgin, -he was inftantly relieved, and fliewed
his gratitude in this fuperb pile *. It muft be confefied that he
called in the aid of other well-difpofed people; for he obtained a
mandate from the Pope, ftill to be feen in the Vatican 1% recommending,
to affift in the expence, a colle&ion throughout Christendom.
■The time that part of the body of the church was deftroyed is
not certainly known ; it was probably at. the time of the Reformation,
when the zealots of this place made excurfions far and wide
to deftroy the churches of other cities.
■ This place had feveral religious houfes ; one of Mathurines, C o n v e n t s .
founded by James Lindfay, whofe charter was confirmed at Perth,
in 1392, by Robert III. Another of Dominicans, by Andrew Aber-
! cromiie, a burgefs of the town. A third, of Francifcans, by De-
■ vorgilla, daughter to Alan, Lord of Galloway, but that was fupported
only by alms, Lady Beatrix, dowager of William, Earl of
-Errol, gave them a hundred pound Scots, on condition that the
monks prayed (with a low voice) for her foul, and that o f her
jmiband. In 1482 they- confifted of a' warden and fourteen bre-
' thren. The fourth was a nunnery, whofe name is barely men-
tioned
lib. XIII. 275, 276.
t It was ihewn to Do ¿lor William R a itt, in 1740, by the Pope’s librarian.
I Keith, 243, 272, 274, 283.
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