Author: [Early Hospital Administration]. Erskine, Mary - Founder
Title: The RULES And CONSTITUTIONS For GOVERNING And MANAGING The MAIDEN - HOSPITAL, Founded by the Company of Merchants, and Mary Erskine, in Anno 1695. Allowed and Confirmed by an Act of Parliament of Her Majesty Queen ANNE, dated the 25th of March 1707, Amended and Approven in a General Meeting of the Contributer, Upon the 9th February 1708. Ratified by the Lord Provost, Baillies and Town Council, Upon the 9th March the said Year, except in so far as the same have been altered by an Act of the Contributers, dated 10th February 1718
Description: Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Fleming and Company, 1731. 1st edition thus. Bound in later red cloth covered card stock covers, with each gathering staggered in the binding, such that it is extended length-wise to 8". xi, [7], 46 pp. Head- tailpieces. 8vo: A - D8. 8" x 5-1/4". 1933 pos to ffep. Period pos to t.p. top margin. Very Good. The Merchant Maiden Hospital was founded in 1695 for the education of daughters of decayed merchant burgesses of Edinburgh. The chief contributor was Mary Erskine (after whom one of Edinburgh's schools is now named). She purchased the original house and garden-grounds near Bristo Park. The school later moved to a building situated beside the Meadows, which was begun in1816. It is of Grecian character, and accommodated about 80 girls between the ages of seven and seventeen. The building included sleeping accommodation, three school-rooms, a meeting room, a kitchen, washing house, laundry and a chapel. The highest floor consisted of a series of rooms, extending the whole length of the building, used for drying clothes during the winter months. Mary Erskine later went on to found the Trades' Maiden Hospital in Edinburgh. This copy bound with other material on Maiden Hospital, see TavBooks ID #39863. Price is for this one volume containing all Maiden Hospital material.

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