1497-9. “Et leprosis ad finem orientalem burgi de Striuelin
percepientibus annuatim octo bollas ex elemosina Regis de
dictis annis [7 Jul. 1497-10 Jul. 1499]—iiij celdre farrine
auenatice.”
Rot. Scacc., No. 314.
1499-1501. “Et leprosis ad finem orientalem burgi de
Striuelin—j celdra farrine auenatice.”
Rot. Scacc., No. 319.
1504-5. “Et leprosis de Striuelin in elimosina viij bolle
ordei—viij bolle farrine.”
Rot. Scacc., No. 329.
1505-6. “Allocatur compotanti in elimosina leprosis ad finem
burgi de Striuelin de termino compoti—viij bolle farrine
[auenatice].”
Rot. Scacc., No. 331.
1506-7. “In elimosina leprosis ad finem burgi de
Striueling—viij bolle farrine.”
Rot. Scacc., No. 333.
1511-12. “Et leprosis prope finem ville de Striueling in
elemosina de anno compoti—viij bolle ordei.”
Rot. Scacc., No. 347.
Observe how literally the situation of the leper-house, as described in
the language of record “_ad finem burgi_,” answers to Henryson’s
phrase—“yone hospitall _at the tounis end_.”
LEPER HOSPITAL OF ABERDEEN.
The leper hospital of Aberdeen was in existence before 1363. A charter
of that year describes certain lands as bounded by the king’s highway
leading from the burgh of Aberdeen _versus domos Leprosorum_; and again
_a domibus dictorum Leprosorum_.—(_Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis_,
vol. ii. p. 283.)
The use of the plural _domos_ and _domibus_ may possibly denote that
there were two hospitals, as at Canterbury and elsewhere—one for men
and one for women.
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