or Chartreuse-grand, a celebrated monastery, the capital of all the convents of the Carthusian monks, situated on a steep rock in the middle of a large forest of fir-trees, about seven miles north-east of Grenoble, in the province of Dauphine in France: E. long. 5° 5', N. lat. 45° 20'. See CARthusians.

From this mother-convent, all the others of the same order take their name; among which was the Chartreuse of London, corruptly called the charter-house, now converted into an hospital, endowed with a revenue of 600 l. per ann.

Here are maintained eighty decayed gentlemen, not under fifty years of age: Also forty boys are educated and fitted either for the university or trades. Those sent to the university, have an exhibition of 20 l. a year for eight years; and have an immediate title to nine church-livings in the gift of the governors of the hospital, who are sixteen in number, all persons of the first distinction, and take their turns in the nomination of pensioners and scholars.