There is an early record of a church built at Stirling by St Monenna, but it is not likely that it was a stone building. In 1463, when James III. was King, the Hospital of St James was erected at the Stirling end of the bridge over the Forth. Near the bridge, somewhat later, was built a chapel of St Roque. In James IV.'s time Stirling acquired another hospital, which still exists. It attests the munificence of Robert Spital, the King's tailor. During the same reign, in 1494, a house of the Grey Friars, dedicated to St Modan, was established in the town. King James IV. lived much at Stirling, and it was he who