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THE LEPER IN ENGLAND:

WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF

English Lazar Houses.

WITH NOTES.

ROBERT CHARLES HOPE, F.S.A., F.R.S.L.,

Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn. Member of the Royal Archæological Institute of Great Britain.

Editor of Barnabe Googe's "Popish Kingdome." Author of "Glossary of Dialectal Place-Nomenclature." "An Inventory of the Church Plate in Rutland." "English Goldsmiths," &c., &c.

SCARBOROUGH: JOHN HAGYARD, PRINTER, "GAZETTE" ST. NICHOLAS STREET.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

TITLE 1

DEDICATION 3

CONTENTS 5

FORESPEECH 7

THE LEPROSY OF SCRIPTURE 9

THE LEPROSY OF THE MIDDLE AGES 13

LAZAR HOUSES 16

STATUS OF LEPERS 26

SUMMARY 29

APPENDIX A.--NOTES 39

" B.--ENGLISH LAZAR HOUSES 43

Dedicated TO THE VEN. R. FREDERICK L. BLUNT, A.K.C., M.A., D.D., ARCHDEACON OF THE EAST RIDING; CANON RESIDENTIARY OF YORK; VICAR OF SCARBOROUGH; CHAPLAIN-IN-ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN; SURROGATE; FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON; CHAPLAIN TO THE ROYAL NORTHERN SEA-BATHING INFIRMARY, SCARBOROUGH, WHO OCCUPIED THE CHAIR ON THE OCCASION, AND AT WHOSE REQUEST, THE LECTURE WAS DELIVERED.

FORESPEECH.

The subject matter embraced within these covers, consists chiefly of notes, made for a lecture delivered in Christ Church Schoolroom, Scarborough, on Thursday, March 5th, 1891, and is published by special request.

No claim for originality is made. The works of the late Sir James Y. Simpson, Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, (Archæological Essays, Vol. II.); Sir Risdon Bennett, M.D., LL.D., F.B.S., "Diseases of the Bible"; Dr. Greenhill, in "Bible Educator"; Leland's "Itinerary"; Dugdale's "Monasticon," &c., &c., have been freely drawn upon, and to these writers, therefore, it is the desire here to acknowledge the indebtedness which is due.

Various Notes will be found in the Appendix, which it is hoped will prove of interest.

THE LEPER IN ENGLAND.