Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1097428
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1097428
121. Hospital of St. Thomas, Watergate.
According to Maitland (1), who had evidently had access to the charter, this hospital was founded in 1541 by George Crichton, Bishop of Dunkeld and previously Abbot of Holyrood, for the maintenance of two chaplains and seven poor folk. In 1582 its patronage fell to the Crown through the forfeiture of Robert Crichton, another bishop of the same see. In 1617 the Privy Council decreed (2) that the "auld chappell" was to be repaired before the king's visit to Holyrood, as it was "decayit" and formed an eyesore in the close vicinity of the palace
RCAHMS 1951
(1) History, pp. 154 f. (2) R.P.C., xi, pp. 40 f.
