In Part I. I enumerated specially the different Scottish leper hospitals
with which I was acquainted, and referred in general terms to the number
of similar institutions that had existed in England. Under the idea that
a connected view of all the British leper hospitals might prove
interesting, I have drawn out the following alphabetical list of such of
them as have come to my knowledge in the course of the preceding
inquiries. To the locality of each hospital and its special designation,
or rather dedication, I have added the dates, as nearly as they could be
ascertained, either of its original foundation, or of the first notice
of it to be found in historical records. Among the unarranged mass of
materials contained in the _Notitia Monastica_, and in the _Monasticon
Anglicanum_, (to which works I am principally indebted for the notes of
the English leper houses), references exist to many old hospitals, the
individual objects of which are now utterly forgotten and unknown. If
sufficient records of them had been preserved we would probably have
been enabled to increase to a much greater extent the subjoined list of
institutions for lepers, as many of them, there is little doubt, were
set aside (like those we now enumerate) for the reception of the victims
of that disease, whose olden history, in as far as relates to this
country, we have so hastily and imperfectly attempted to trace.
LIST OF LEPER HOSPITALS FORMERLY EXISTING IN GREAT BRITAIN.
+-----------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------+
| Town and County. |Designation of Hospital |Date of Foundation |
| | or Locality. |or Earliest Notice.|
+-----------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------+
|Aberdeen |St. Anna. | |
|Aldcambus, Berwickshire | ... |Before A.D. 1214. |
|Aldnestun, Berwickshire | ... |Before 1177. |
|Appleby, Westmoreland |St. Nicolas. | |
|Athelington, Dorsetshire |St. Mary Magdalene. | |
|Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire |St. John and St. Leonard |Time of Henry I. |
| | | or before 1135. |
|Banbury, Oxfordshire |St. John |Time of King John, |
| | | or before 1216. |
|Beccles, Suffolk |St. Mary Magdalene |About 1327. |
|Berkhamstede, Hertfordshire |St. John the Evangelist. | |
|Berwick-upon-Tweed | ... |Before 1283. |
|Blythe, Nottinghamshire |St. John the Evangelist |In time of Pope |
| | | Honorius. |
|Bolton, Northumberland |Holy Trinity |Before 1225. |
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