[315] It is but proper to add that the tubercular leprosy is looked upon by some pathologists as a disease not originally endemic in any part of the New World, and that it was first imported into and spread through the West Indies, etc., by subjects brought from Africa. Hillary professes himself certain upon this point. See his _Observations on the Diseases of Barbadoes_ (1766), p. 322; and also, for the same opinion, Schilling’s _Commentationes de Lepra_ (1778), p. 20. [316] _De Morbis Occultis_, lib. i. c. 12. [317] _Observationes Chirurgicæ_, lib. iv. obs. 7. [318] Du Chesne’s _Historiæ Francorum Scriptores Coaetanei_, tom. v. p. 402. Joinville’s _Histoire de St. Louys_ (1668), p. 121. Sprengel’s _Histoire de Medecine_, tom. ii. p. 373. [319] Joinville, _ut supra_, p. 121. “A celui jour du Jeudi Saint, il lave les predz aux meseaux, et puis les baise.” [320] Du Chesne, _ut supra_, tom. iv. p. 76. [321] _Historia Angliæ Major_, p. 42. [322] Ruel’s _Collectio Conciliorum_ (1675), tom. i. p. 1108. [323] Dupin’s _History of Ecclesiastical Writers_ (London, edit. 1695), vol. vii. p. 131. [324] _Manipulus Curatorum_ (Bremen, 1577), p. iv. c. 9. [325] _Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ_, tom, i. p. 616. Canon lxxii. [326] Second Part of Henry VI., act iii. sc. 3. [327] Maundrell’s “Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, at Easter, A. D. 1697,” in Pinkerton’s _Collection_, vol. x. pp. 380-81. [328] _De Causis et Signis Morborum_ (Leip. edit. 1735), p. 71. [329] Baron’s _Description of the Kingdom of Tonquin_, p. 104; or Churchill’s _Voyages_, vol. vi. p. 158. [330] Richard’s “History of Tonquin,” contained in Pinkerton’s _Collection_, vol. ix. p. 728. [331] See various enactments of the French provinces on this head, given at length in Delamarré’s _Traité de la Police_ (Paris, 1722), vol. i. p. 636. [332] See the document previously cited from Rymer’s _Fœdera_, vol. xi. p. 635. I quote the following notice from Poulson’s _Antiquities of Beverley_ (London, 1829), vol. ii. p. 773, as an instance of what in all probability not unfrequently took place in these times—viz. the voluntary entrance of lepers into the lazar-houses: “Item, in the year of our Lord 1394, one Margaret Taillor, a leper, came before the twelve governors of the town of Beverley in the Guildhall, and prayed license to have one bed (et petiit licenceam here [habere] unum lectum) in the leper-house without Keldgate bar, which said twelve governors, viz. Nicelas Ryse, William Pollesta, etc., by their common consent have granted.”—_Lansdowne MS._, No. 896, fol. 116. [333] Skene alleges that these laws were made by David I., who died in 1152-53. George Chalmers states, that, from allusion to them in a charter to Glasgow, bearing date 1176, they were at least by that time in existence. (_Caledonia_, vol. i. p. 726.) See further remarks in the Essays of Anderson, Lord Hailes, etc.