[65] As in the hospital of St. Laurence, Canterbury, which contained lepers of both sexes. See Strype’s _Life of Archbishop Parker_, 1791, vol. i. p. 224. [66] Surtees’ _Durham_, vol. i. p. 286. [67] In a passage breathing the very spirit and prejudices of the middle ages, Mezeray states that during all the twelfth century, two very cruel evils (deux maux tres cruels) reigned in France, viz. _leprosy_ and _usury_; one of which (he adds) infected the body, while the other ruined families.—_Histoire de France_, tom. ii. p. 169. [68] _Historia Anglor._ etc., Appendix, p. 164. [69] _De l’Origine de Chevalrie_, chap. ix. p. 126. [70] _Le Histoire du Clerge Seculier_, etc. See Table from it in Taylor’s _Index Monasticus_, p. xxvii. [71] Helyot’s _Histoire des Ordres Religieux_ (edit. of 1792), vol. i. p. 257. [72] Rivius’ _Historia Monast. Occident._ (1737), p. 223. [73] _History and Antiquities of Leicester_, vol. ii. p. 72. [74] There was in England at least one alien cell of Lazarites, at Lokhay, Derbyshire, subject to a French house. Tanner’s _Notitia Monastica_, p. 83. [75] _Monasticon Anglicanum_, 2d ed. vi. p. 632. _Notitia Monastica_, p. 239. [76] _MS. Chartulary of Newbottle Abbey_, p. 205, Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh. Since writing the above I find that Maitland, in his _History of Scotland_, includes, but without any references or details, the institution of Lazarites at Linlithgow, among his meagre list of Scottish Hospitals, vol. i. p. 269. [77] _Histoire des Ordres Religieux_, tom. i. p. 264. [78] _Historical Account of the Blue Blanket_, etc., containing the fundamental principles of the Good Town (Edin. 1722), p. 6. Probably the Lazarites are here confounded with the Hospitallers or Knights of St. John. [79] Geddes’ _Tracts_. View of all the Orders of Monks and Fryars in the Roman Church. London (1794), p. 46. [80] Helyot, tom. i. p. 262, and Moehsen’s _Commentatio Prima de Medicis Equestri dignitate Ornatis_ (1750), p. 56. [81] _Bul. Rom._ tom. ii. Const. 95, Pii iv. § 4. [82] _Abrégé Hist. de l’Ordre de Notre-Dame_, etc., or Helyot, tom. i. p. 397. [83] _Testament of Cresseid_ (Bannatyne Club edition, 1824), p. 20. [84] _Edinburgh Town-Council Records_, vol. ix. p. 123. [85] See a copy of the charter in Kennedy’s _Annals_, vol. i. p. 167. [86] Taylor’s _Index Monasticus_, p. 12. [87] _Ibid._ See instances at pages 57 and 60. [88] _Monast. Anglic._ tom. ii. p. 365, and _Hist. Angl._ Scripta edit. Lond. 1652. Coll. 1450, l. 4. [89] _Life and Acts of Matthew Parker_, by J. Strype, 1791, vol. i. p. 224-26. [90] Taylor, ut supra, p. 127, _Table of Revenues_. [91] Dugdale’s _Mon. Anglic._ 2d ed. vol. vi. p. 652. [92] _Ibid._ p. 637. [93] _Val. Ecclesiast. Temp. Henr. VIII._, tom. v. 1825, p. 308. [94] _Ibid._ p. 645.