The silence of Wyntoun, Fordun, and our other early Scotch chroniclers, as to the disease of which King Robert Bruce died, may not improbably be explained by their reluctance to associate the heroic monarch with an odious and degrading malady. But the King’s metrical biographer names his disease, or at least its origin; and it would be interesting to know if that disease can be identified with leprosy. “For a malice him tuk sa sar, That he on na wiss mycht be thar. This malice off enfundeying Begouth; for, through his cald lying, Quhen in his gret myscheiff wes he, Him fell that hard perplexite.” —(Barbour’s _Bruce_, pp. 406-407. Dr. Jamieson’s edit. 1820.) In Mr. Cosmo Innes’ later edition the passage stands thus— “For ane male es tuk him sa sar That he on na wis mycht be thar. His male es of ane fundying Begouth, for throu his cald lying, Quhen in his gret mischef was he, Him fell that hard perplexite.” —(Barbour’s _Bruce_, p. 469. Aberd. 1856. Spalding Club.) What is “enfundeying,” as Dr. Jamieson calls it, or “ane fundying,” as Mr. Innes makes it? Dr. Jamieson glosses it as “perhaps asthma,” but on what ground I do not see. At the same time I am unable to suggest any interpretation of the term. Can medical nomenclature supply none? CONTAGIOUSNESS OF LEPROSY. To the list of persons (Part III. pp. 133, 134) who tended or even kissed lepers without being smitten with the disease, may be added Walter de Luci, Abbot of Battle, in Sussex, from 1139 to 1171, who often washed and kissed the feet and hands of lepers—_eorum manus pedesque abluendo fovebat, et intimo caritatis pietatisque affectu blanda oscula imprimebat_.—(_Chronicon Monasterii de Bello_, p. 135. Lond. 1846. Anglia Christiana.) The story (Sir James Simpson’s Paper, Part III. p. 134) quoted from Matthew Paris, about the good Queen Maud, is to be found in an earlier writer, St. Aelred of Rievaux, from whose _Genealogia Regum Anglorum_ Matthew Paris, or rather Roger of Wendover, borrowed it. It may be remarked, generally, that late editors have shown that all that part of Matthew Paris’ history which is previous to the year 1235 is really the work of Roger of Wendover. As such it has been reprinted by the English Historical Society. LIST OF LEPER HOSPITALS. _Oxford, St. Bartholomew._—The date of foundation of this hospital is left blank in the list of British Leper Hospitals, p. 160. It certainly existed before the 24th November 1200, when the lepers of St. Bartholomew of Oxford had letters of protection from King John.—(_Rot. Chart. in Turr. Lund._ vol. i. p. 99.)