[334] Skene’s _Regiam Majestatem_. The Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scotland (edit. of 1774), p. 241. [335] The economical measures generally adopted for the sustenance of the poor lepers are only too significantly shown in the following public statute passed in the Scoon Parliament of 1386. “Gif ony man brings to the markit corrupt swine or salmond to be sauld, they sall be taken by the Bailies, and incontinent, without ony question, sall be sent to the lepperfolke, and gif there be na lepperfolke, they sall be destroyed alluterlie (entirely).”—Acts of Robert III. in the _Regiam Majestatem_, p. 414. [336] Transcribed from the “Chartulary of Aberdeen” in Wilkin’s _Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ_, tom. i. p. 616. Canon lxxii. [337] See the edicts to this effect of the state and city of Modena, in Muratori’s _Antiquitates Mædii Ævi_, vol. iii. p. 54; the Synodal Statutes in 1247 of the Church of Le Mans, in Martene and Durand’s _Collectio Veterum Scriptorum_, vol. vii. p. 1397; _ibid._ p. 1363, etc.; and also the various laws enacted by the Magistrates of Paris, in Delamarré’s _Traité de la Police_, vol. ii. pp. 636-7, etc. etc. [338] _Regiam Majestatem_, Burrow Lawes, chap. 64, p. 241. [339] Murray’s _Acts of the Scottish Parliament_, vol. ii. p. 18. [340] _Regiam Majestatem_, p. 273. [341] _Records of Prestwick_, p. 27. [342] _Ibid._ p. 28. [343] _Ibid._ p. 29. [344] “Liber Statutorum Burgi de Edynburgh”—in the Maitland Club _Miscellany_, vol. ii. [345] Strype’s edit. of John Stow’s _Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster_ (1720), vol. ii. book ii. p. 74. [346] Stow’s _Survey_, vol. ii. p. 21. [347] Arnott’s _History of Edinburgh_, p. 258. [348] _MS. Records of the Town-Council of Edinburgh_, vol. ix. p. 123. [349] This and the other laws of St. Magdalene’s, Exeter, are to be found at p. 30, etc., of an interesting essay of Dr. Shapter’s of that city, entitled, “A few observations on the Leprosy of the Middle Ages.” The essay, which was printed for private circulation, was kindly forwarded to me by the author, after the publication of the First Part of the present papers. [350] Matthew Paris’ _Historia Angliæ_. Additamenta, pp. 162 and 168. [351] _Monasticon Anglicanum_, tom. ii. p. 438. [352] In former times the churchyards seem to have been the general resort of beggars. Æneas Sylvius, who visited Scotland as the Pope’s Legate in the reign of James I., speaks of there seeing the almost naked paupers (pauperes, pæne nudos; ad templa mendicantes) supplied with coals as alms.—_Historia de Europa_, c. 46. Sibbald’s _Chronicle of Scottish Poetry_, vol. i. p. 176.