[215] In describing the duties of the examiner, De Chauliac observes, “In primis invocando Dei auxilium debet eos comfortare, quòd ista passio est salvatio animae et quod non dubitent dicere veritatem, quia si reperientur Leprosi, purgatorium animae esset; et si mundus habet eos odio, non tamen Deus, cum Lazarum Leprosum plus dilexit quam alios. Si autem non reperientur tales stabunt in pace.”—P. 310. [216] From the “Statuta Milonis Episcopi Aurelianensis, anno MCCCXIV. in Synodo autumnali edita,” contained in Martene and Durand’s _Amplissima Collectio veterum Scriptorum et Monumentorum_ (Paris, 1733), tom. vii. p. 1286. [217] _Foedera, Conventiones, Literae et cujuscunque generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae et aliosquosvis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices vel Communitates._ Vol. xi. (London, 1710), p. 635. [218] Ropemakers were long treated and shunned as lepers, because their trade was one which at an early part of the middle ages was principally followed by pilgrims and crusaders who had returned in a leprous condition from the East.—Ogée’s _Histoire de Bretagne_. Hensler’s _Abendländischen Aufsatze_, 1790, p. 212. [219] _Records of the Burgh of Prestwick_, p. 28. [220] In the list (p. 10) of fifty-eight “burges inhabitant ye burghe of Prestwik” in 1507, occur the two significant surnames of “Allane Leppar” and “Adame Leppar.” [221] _Burgh Records of Glasgow_, presented to the Maitland Club by Mr. Smith, pp. 1 and 127. [222] _Memorabilia of Glasgow_, p. 55. [223] Alexander Jenkins’ _History and Description of the City of Exeter, and its Environs, Ancient and Modern_, etc. (1806), p. 384. [224] _Index Monasticus_, p. 61. _Monasticon Anglicanum_ (2d edit.), vol. vi. p. 769. [225] _Notitia Monastica_, p. 211. [226] Lord Lyttelton’s _History of the Life of Henry II. and of the Age in which he lived_. (Lond. 1767.) Appendix of Documents, vol. iv. p. 220. [227] See _Monasticon Anglicanum_, vol. vi. p. 643, 2d edit. [228] Leland’s _Itinerary through England and Wales_ (Hearne’s edit.), vol. iv. p. 105. [229] _Chron. MS. Henrici Knyghton_, in Bibl. Bodl. lib. ii. cap. 2; _Monasticon Anglicanum_ (2d edit.), vol. vi. p. 687. [230] Agnes Strickland’s _Lives of the Queens of England_, vol. ii. p. 78. [231] Ryland’s _History of Waterford_, p. 200. Mrs. Gore has founded one of her latest tales (“The Leper House of Janval”), on the idea of William, the third son of the Empress Matilda, becoming a leper. See her _Tales of a Courtier_, vol. ii. p. 55. I am not aware whether the tale is so far historically accurate, or merely assumed, as I do not recollect to have met with any notice of the individual history or death of the prince (the youngest of the three grandsons of Henry I.) who is the subject of the story.