In 1280 it was certified to King Edward I. that Adam of Gangy, brother and heir of Ralph of Gangy, deceased, of the county of Northumberland, holding land of the king in chief, was struck with leprosy (_leperia percussus_), so that he could not conveniently repair to the king’s presence to pay his homage to the king (quod ad presenciam Regis ad homagium suum Regi faciendum commode accedere non potest). It was therefore ordered that Thomas of Normanville, the elder, should in lieu and turn of the king take the leper’s fealty for his lands.—(_Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio_, vol. i. p. 33. Lond. 1805.) Here, again, we see leprosy attacking a person of comparatively high position. But here the disease neither inferred civil death nor excluded the leper from all intercourse with his fellows. In 1313, Nicholas the Leper (Nicholaus le Lepere) and William the Leper (Willielmus le Lepere) are manucaptors or pledges that John de la Poile, knight of the shire returned for Surrey, will do his duty in Parliament.—(_Palgrave’s Parliamentary Writs_, vol. ii. pp. 89, 113.) Here we have a family of note bearing the name of Leper, derived no doubt from the leprosy of an ancestor. Before 1083 a miraculous cure of leprosy is said to have been effected at the shrine of St. Cuthbert at Durham, on the person of a noble of the south of England—“vir quidam in longinqua Australium Anglorum regione qui multæ nobilitatis gratia inter comprovintiales preditus erat. Hic tam corporis sani virtute gaudebat, quam omni prosperitatis affluentia; et divitiarum gloria cæteros excedebat,” etc. etc.—(_Reginaldi Dunelmensis Libellus de Beati Cuthberti Virtutibus_, pp. 37-41. Lond. 1835. Surtees Soc.) The same writer, in another work, relates the cure of three lepers at the tomb of St. Godric of Finchale. One, a male, was a shepherd; the other two were women, apparently of the middle or lower ranks.—(_Reginaldi Dunelmensis Libellus de Vita et Miraculis S. Godrici_, pp. 430, 431, 455-458. Lond. 1845. Surtees Soc.) The shepherd was a youth (_juvenis_); one of the women was a girl (_puella_). LEPERS AMONG THE CLERGY. Another illustration of the prevalence of leprosy among the English clergy, alluded to at p. 106, Part III., is supplied by the will of Richard Basy, of Bylburgh, in Yorkshire, in 1393:—“Item lego presbiteris cæcis vel leprosis seu aliter languentibus, qui non valent celebrare circa divinum officium celebrandum, et aliis pauperibus eodem modo languentibus et jacentibus, xl. solidos.”—(_Testamenta Eboracensia_, vol. i. p. 192. Lond. 1836. Surtees Soc.) Pope Lucius III. decreed in 1181 that rectors of churches who were struck with leprosy should serve their cures by coadjutors; and Pope Clement III., in 1190, ordained that leprous priests should be removed from their priestly office, but should be supported from the fruits of their benefices.—(_Corpus Juris Canonici_, vol. ii. coll. 447-448. Edit. 1747.) CASE OF KING ROBERT BRUCE.