Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1097864
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1097864
76. Hospital of St. Mary, St. Mary's Wynd.
This is the earliest recorded hospital in Edinburgh. It was founded by the magistrates in 1438 (1), and was re-roofed in 1508 (2). This may or may not have been the same establishment as that of the "sisters of Sanct Mary Wynd” mentioned in 1522 (3), of which a further record occurs in 1535 (4). The chapel belonging to the Hospital was resorted to for worship by the "clengers” (cleansers) in time of plague (5).
RCAHMS 1951
(1) Registrum Supplicationum (Vatican archives) vol. 348, f. xxvii, v (30th May, 1438); vol. 349, f. cxxx, v (2nd July, 1438). 2 B.R., 1403-1528, p. 117. (3) Reg. Cart. St. Egid., p. 215. (4) Ibid., p. 236. (5) B.R.,1403-1528, p. 77
