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 charterhouse, now converted into an hospital, and endowed with a revenue of 600l. per ann.

Here are maintained 80 decayed gentlemen, not under 50 years of age; also 40 boys are educated and fitted either for the university or trades. Those sent to the university, have an exhibition of 20l. a-year for eight years; and have an immediate title to nine churchlivings 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.