[606] Pitcairn’s _Criminal Trials_, vol. i. p. 232. [607] See Mr. Laing’s admirable edition of Dunbar’s _Poems_, vol. i. p. 115. [608] Lyndsay’s _Warkis_ (1592), p. 262. [609] See Dunbar’s _Poems_, vol. ii. p. 24. [610] _Astruc_, p. 634. [611] _Historical, etc., Account of the Principal Families of the name of Kennedy_, p. 17. [612] Cleland, in 1st Part of the _Transactions of the Glasgow and Clydesdale Statistical Society_, p. 13. [613] See Grunbeck, in _Tractatus de Pestilentia Scorra_, c. 8; and Brant, in his poetical Eulogium _De Scorra Pestilentiali_— “Nec satis extremo tutantur in orbe Britanni.” [614] _A Brieffe and Necessary Treatise touching the Cure of the Disease now usually called Lues Venerea._ [615] See Mr. Beckett’s papers in the _Philosophical Transactions_ for 1718. [616] _Archæologia_, vol. xxx. pp. 358 and 359. [617] Holdtfeldt’s _Chronik_, p. 6. Astruc (p. 116) points to the same fact in regard to Paris, where two leper hospitals existed when syphilis began; but the syphilitic patients were not sent to them, but to other houses specially hired for the purpose. [618] See Dr. Cleland’s “Extracts,” in _Transactions of Glasgow Statistical Society_, Part i. p. 13, etc. [619] _Parliamentary History_, vol. iii. p. 44; Henry’s _History of Great Britain_, vol. xii. p. 219; the _Life and Reign of King Henry VIII._, by the Right Hon. Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 1572, p. 295. [620] See his _Consilium pro reverendissimo Episcopo et Hungariæ Vicerege_; in Luisinus’ Collection, vol. ii. p. 6. [621] _Astruc_, p. 113 (English Edition). [622] Tytler’s _History of Scotland_, vol. iv. p. 319. [623] _De Morbo fœdo et occulto, his temporibus affligente._ [624] The simple and newly elected Pontiff, Adrian VI., when writing to his Legate at the Diet of Nuremberg, A.D. 1522, in the same spirit observes, “We are well aware that for many years past the holy city has been a scene of many corruptions and abominations. The infection has spread from the head through the members, and has descended from the popes to the rest of the clergy.”—_Pallav. Op._, vol. i. p. 160; _Sarpi_, p. 25.