[353] We have seen, in a previous page (p. 137, _supra_), that the lepers met with by Maundrell, in Palestine, in 1697, carried a kind of “cop,” or, as he expresses it, they came “with small buckets in their hands to receive the alms of the charitable.” Evelyn, in his interesting _Memoirs_, alludes to a curious mode of sending alms to the leper that he saw practised one hundred years ago in Holland. In his Diary, under the date of 26th July 1641, he states, “I passed through Deft to the Hague, in which journey I observed divers leprous poor creatures dwelling in solitary huts on the brink of the water, and permitted to aske the charity of the passengers, which is conveyed to them in a floating box that they cast out.”—Bray’s edition of _Evelyn’s Memoirs_, etc., vol. i. p. 12. [354] _Antiquitates Italicæ Medii Ævi_, tom. iii. p. 54. [355] _Sir Tristrem_, a metrical Romance of the thirteenth century, edited by Sir Walter Scott (Edinb. 1804), Introduction, p. 12. [356] Tytler’s “Historical Inquiry into the ancient state of Scotland,” _History_ (2d edit.), pp. 305 and 337. [357] In Robert de Brunne’s translation (made in the reign of Edward the Third) of Peter Langtoft’s Chronicles, the same term “mesel” is used as synonymous with leper, and applied to one designated in the rubrics “Baldeiano Leproso.” Baldewyn the Meselle, his name so hight, ... For foul meselrie he comond with no man. John Trevisa has rendered the lepra of Glanville by “meselry,” in translating, in 1398, the treatise _De Proprietatibus Rerum_.—See the London edition of 1535, pp. 109-110. [358] _Testament of Cresseid_, as previously quoted. [359] Lord Coke’s _First Institutes of the Laws of England_ (Thomas’ edit.) vol. ii. p. 193, and vol. i. p. 162. [360] Lindenborg’s _Codex Legum Antiquarum_ (1613), p. 609. [361] _Observations sur l’Histoire de S. Louys_ (in edit. of Joinville’s _Life of St. Louis_, 1668. Appendix, p. 34.) [362] Delamarré’s _Traité de la Police_ (Paris, 1722), vol. ii. p. 636. [363] Lobineau’s _Histoire de Bretagne_, vol. i. p. 204; Mezeray’s _Histoire de France_, tom. ii. pp. 168-69. [364] _Dictionnaire Historique et Geographique de la Bretagne_ (1778), p. 176. [365] _Essai Historique sur la ville de Bayeux_ (1829), p. 254, _seqq._ [366] The other variety of Lycium, described by Dioscorides as procured in Asia-Minor (Lycia, Cappadocia, etc.), is now generally supposed to be an extract from the _Rhamnus infectorius_, or other species of _Rhamnus_. (See Professor Royle, in _Linnæan Transactions_, vol. xvii. p. 87; Dr. Adams, in his admirable edition of _Paulus Ægineta_, vol. iii. p. 234.) [367] _The Manners and Customs of the Romans_, p. 287. [368] _Scriptores Historiæ Romanæ_, tom. ii. p. 402. (Heidelberg edition of 1743.) [369] _Corpus Juris Civilis Digestorum_, lib. iv. tit. vi. leg. 33, sec. 2, p. 142. (Leyden Edit. 1652.)