[8] Mezeray, _Histoire de France_, tom. ii. 1645, p. 168. “Il n’y avoit n’y ville, n’y bourgade, qui ne fust obligée de bâtir un hospital pour les (Lepres) retirer.” [9] _Antiquitates Italicæ Medii Aevi_, tom. iii. p. 53. “In Italia vix ulla erat civitas quæ non aliquem locum, Leprosis destinatum, haberet.” [10] _Acta Sanctorum a Patribus Soc. Jesu Antuerpiæ Collecta._ Holst in his Work on Radesyge (_Morbus quem Radesyge vocant_: Christianae, 1817), refers to the works of Smid and Petersen, as showing that Denmark formerly suffered much from leprous diseases (morbis Leprosis olim graviter vexatam fuisse), p. 90. [11] For reference to the prevalence of leprosy and leper hospitals in Ireland, see Ledwich’s _Antiquities of Ireland_ (Dublin, 1804), p. 370. [12] Terms manifestly (according to Junius, Johnson, Richardson, etc.) mere corruptions of the word hospital. [13] _Manuscript Chartulary of the Priory of Coldingham_, p. 25. Advocates Library, Edinburgh. In the above Latin extract the original orthography is preserved. [14] _Liber de Sanctæ Mariæ de Melros._ Presented by the Duke of Buccleuch to the Bannatyne Club, Edin. 1839, tom. i. p. 70. See also Morton’s _Monastic Annals of Teviotdale_, 1832, p. 265. [15] _Stat. Ac. of Scotland_, No. xvi. p. 75. [16] _Registrum Monasterii de Passelet_, 1163-1529. Presented by the Earl of Glasgow to the Maitland Club, tom. i. p. 21. I am indebted to Mr. E. Thomson of Edinburgh, and formerly of Ayr, for pointing out to me the fact and inference in the text. [17] See Chalmers’ _Caledonia_, vol. iii. p. 496; and _Records of the Burgh of Prestwick, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century_. Glasgow, 1834, p. 127. [18] _The Lord of the Isles._ Canto v. Note vii. [19] _Session Papers_, Advocates’ Library, vol. xxix. Petition of Colonel Fullarton to the Lords of Council and Session, Jan. 18, 1798, for the patronage, etc., of Kingcase. [20] _Geographiæ Bleauvianæ_, vol. vi. p. 60. [21] _Gibson’s History of Glasgow_ (1778), p. 52. _Cleland’s Glasgow_, 1816, vol. i. 68. [22] _Burgh Records of Glasgow, from 1573 to 1581_ (printed 1832), p. 1. [23] _Ibid._ p. 52. [24] _Ibid._ p. 127. [25] _Memorabilia of Glasgow_, selected from the Minute Books of the Burgh, 1588 to 1750 (printed 1835), p. 55. [26] _Manuscript Records of the Town-Council of Edinburgh_, vol. vii. p. 168. There would seem to have been a Leper-hospital belonging to Edinburgh antecedent to that built at Greenside. At least in the _City Council Records_ for 30th September 1584, I find a missive for Michael Chisholm and others, to inquire into “the estait and ordour of the _awld_ (old) fundatioun of the Lipperhous besyde Dyngwall.” The Castle of Dyngwall, the residence of the Provost of the adjoining Trinity College, formerly stood on the site of the Orphan Hospital, behind Shakespeare Square.