[232] _Chronicle at large and meere Historie of the Affayres of England and Kings of the same_ (1569); see p. 506 of edit. of 1809. [233] _Chronicles_; or _Union of the two Noble and Illustre Families of York and Lancastre_ (1548); see Hearne’s edit. of 1809, p. 45. [234] Hollinshed’s _Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland_, 1577. London, edit. of 1808, vol. v. p. 360. [235] _History of England_ (1st edit.), vol. iii. p. 315. [236] Rapin’s _History of England_ (ed. by Tindal), vol. ii. p. 185. [237] Sharon Turner’s _History of England_, vol. ii. p. 272. [238] Duchesne’s _Histoire d’Angleterre, d’Ecosse et d’Irelande_ (Paris, 1614), p. 1010. [239] Strickland’s _Lives of the Queens of England_, vol. iii. p. 114. [240] _The Chronicle of England unto the reigne of King Edward IV._, by Iohn Hardynge (Ellis’ edit. 1813) p. 370. [241] Fuller’s _Historie of the Holy Warre_ (3d edit. 1647), p. 94. [242] Fuller’s _Historie of the Holy Warre_ (3d edit. 1647), p. 101. [243] _Oeuvres de Rabelais_ (Paris, 1835), p. 666. [244] Bellenden’s Transl. of Boece’s _Chroniklis of Scotland_, vol. ii. p. 102 (edit. of 1821). Dempster’s _Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum_ (1627), p. 278. [245] Spottiswood’s _History of the Church of Scotland_ (edit. of 1665), p. 21. See also Fiacre’s story in Lesslie _de Origine, Moribus_, etc., _Scotorum_ (1578), p. 156. [246] The _Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland_ (Macpherson’s edit.), vol. ii. p. 136. [247] I have already shown in Part I. that the name here given to the leprosy by the old French historian exactly corresponds with the Anglo-Saxon designation of the disease “_seo mycle adhl_.” It perhaps deserves to be added that (as appears from a paper of Dr. Ainslie—_Asiatic Researches_, vol. i. p. 287) the term “_Peri Vishadi_,” applied to tubercular leprosy by the Brahmins of Hindustan, also literally signifies “the great disease.” [248] Sir John Froissart’s _Chronycles of England, France_, etc., translated at the command of Henry VIII. by Lord Berners (London, edit. of 1812), vol. i. p. 19. In p. 28, he again states, “it fortuned that King Robert was right sore aged and feble, for he was greatly changed with the great sicknes, so that there was no way with him but death.” [249] Froissart, _Histoire et Cronique_ (edit. of 1559), vol. i. p. 13. [250] _Collection des Memoires Nationelles_, etc., tom. x. p. 61. [251] Johnes’ English edit. of _Froissart’s Chronicles_ (1839), pp. 18 and 26. [252] _Hemingfordii Chronicon_ (Hearne’s edit. 1731), tom. ii. p. 270. [253] Camden’s _Anglica, Normannica_, etc., _a veteribus Scripta_ (Frankf. 1603), p. 129. [254] _Ibid._ p. 610. [255] _Scotorum Historia_ (Paris edit. 1574), p. 308. Bellenden’s Translation vol. ii. p. 40: “He deceissit in lepre.” [256] _Rerum Scoticarum Historia_ (1762), p. 224.