Part 16

" S. Nicholas. Maude the Empress.

Sheffield S. Leonard.

Whitby S. John the Baptist. Founded by Abbot William de Percy, 1109. For one Leper.

Who gave to it the wood and thorny ground adjacent to the spot. The building being for the habitation of one Leper only, one Orme being the first, was necessarily small. Orme was supplied with his provisions daily from the Abbey. After him Geoffrey Mansell, a Leprous monk of Whitby also lived here in solitude. On his death the hospital ceased to be used as a Lazar House, and was enlarged for the reception of several poor people both healthy and sick, Robert de Alnett being appointed master of it.

Yarm S. Nicholas. Founded by Robert de Brus, c. 1180.

York (4) S. Mary Magdalene.

" S. Nicholas. Early c. 1110. For men and women.

" S. Oswald. Founded by Bishop Oswald, 1268.

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This is not a complete list of all the Lazar Houses once existing in England, but has been hurriedly compiled from Dugdale's Mon. Ang. vol. vi.; Lewis' Top. Dic. of England; Promptorium Parvulorum; Historic Towns--Exeter, by Professor Freeman, and other sources.

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JOHN HAGYARD, PRINTER, ST. NICHOLAS STREET, SCARBOROUGH.