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    The Observant Order of Greyfriars (or Greyfriars) was a friary of the Franciscan Order located in the Scottish city of Perth. It was founded by Laurence...
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  • the friary Greyfriars, Perth Greyfriars, Richmond Greyfriars, Shrewsbury Greyfriars, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland Greyfriars, Stamford Greyfriars, Winchelsea...
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    Greyfriars Burial Ground is an historic cemetery in Perth, Scotland. Dating to 1580, it is now Category A listed, with its collection of gravestones considered...
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    found to also be the northern wall of the Fair Maid's House in 2006. Greyfriars, Perth Cowan & Easson, Medieval Religious Houses, p. 114. Cowan & Easson...
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    Reformation had a strong impact on the city: the Houses of the Greyfriars and Blackfriars, two of Perth's four monastic institutions at the time of the Reformation...
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    church's eastern elevation from the adjacent Greyfriars Burial Ground Scotland portal List of listed buildings in Perth, Scotland Historic Environment Scotland...
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  • Lanark Greyfriars Lesmahagow Priory Return to top of page Dirleton Red Friars Dunbar Priory Fidra Priory Haddington Blackfriars Haddington Greyfriars Luffness...
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  • elder, died on the same day. Sage was buried in the churchyard of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh. John Gillan in his Life of Sage gives a long Latin inscription...
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    of Greyfriars Kirk is a position within the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Edinburgh and West Lothian. The most recent minister of Greyfriars Kirk...
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  • houses of the Dominicans (Blackfriars), Observantine Franciscans (Greyfriars) and Perth Charterhouse, Scotland's only Carthusian Priory, or "Charterhouse"...
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    David Octavius Hill (category People from Perth, Scotland)
    5 October 1841, aged 36, and was buried with her family in Greyfriars Churchyard in Perth. Charlotte Hill went on to marry the author Walter Scott Dalgleish...
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    when Brodie takes her girls on a walk through the Old Town, ending up in Greyfriars Kirkyard. Alley Wynd Ginnel S Harris, The Place Names of Edinburgh, London...
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    England. He returned to Edinburgh and Greyfriars in January 1653 and died there in February 1660. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. In May 1638 he married...
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  • Scottish Urban Archaeological Trust (category Organisations based in Perth, Scotland)
    proposals were made to dismantle and rebuild the eastern wall of Perth's Greyfriars Burial Ground, two test pits were dug by the Trust. One of the pits...
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    1–3 South Street (category Listed buildings in Perth, Scotland)
    The building stands immediately to the east of Greyfriars Burial Ground. List of listed buildings in Perth, Scotland Historic Environment Scotland. "1,...
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  • Glory (1960) as Capt. Jimmy Cairns, M.C. Snowball (1960) as Bill Donovan Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961) as Farmer Two Wives at One Wedding...
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    Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland. He served as minister of Greyfriars Kirk and was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland...
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    stabbed to death by Robert the Bruce before the altar at the church of the Greyfriars at Dumfries. His father, John Comyn II, known as the Black Comyn, had...
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    Adam Gib (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    him the nickname Pope Gib. He died on 14 June 1788 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh on 18 June. The grave lies on the south-facing section...
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    Wester Portsburgh; Bristo Port (Greyfriars Port, Society Port), built around 1515 on Bristo Street, close to Greyfriars Kirk and the Society of Brewers;...
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  • Rhoda Fothergill (category Writers from Perth, Scotland)
    historical guides to Perth, Scotland. Her focus areas were Old Perth, the Greyfriars Burial Ground and people of 19th-century Perth. She was the longest-serving...
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    Catherine Wilson, died 8 August 1805, aged only 28, and is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, with their infant child George (d.1802). His brother, John Jeffrey...
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    Loch Monzievaird (category Lochs of Perth and Kinross)
    was killed in 1306 by Robert the Bruce in the convent of the Minorites (Greyfriars Kirk) at Dumfries. It is thought that Sir William Murray, 1st Baronet...
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    1839 at age 65 in his home, Early Banks, in Perth, Scotland. He has a mausoleum in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Perth. On his tomb, there is the following inscription...
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  • This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Perth, Scotland. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates)...
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    William Sandeman (category People from Perth and Kinross)
    the Greyfriars graveyard Perth with the inscription "William Sandeman manufacturer Perth and bleacher at Luncarty". He manufactured linen in Perth and...
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    child, his son John. He died in early 1621, and was buried in Greyfriars Burial Ground in Perth, where his monument, including a 1774 tablet added by his...
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    William McGonagall (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
    Edinburgh's South College Street and was buried in an unmarked grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. A wall-mounted memorial installed to his memory...
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    John Mylne (died 1657) (category People from Perth, Scotland)
    from 1621 to 1627. He is buried against the southern wall of Greyfriars Burial Ground in Perth, close to the southern pedestrian gate. The stone was erected...
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  • At a private meeting with Comyn on the 10th of February, 1306 at the Greyfriars Church, Bruce reproached Comyn for his treachery, which Comyn denied....
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