"A chyrche of Owre Lady that ys namyde Bedlam. And yn that place ben founde many men that ben fallyn owte of hyr wytte. And fulle honestely they ben kepte in that place; and sum ben restoryde unto hyr witte and helthe a-gayne. And sum ben a-bydyng there yn for evyr, for they ben falle soo moche owte of hem selfe that hyt ys uncurerabylle unto man." In her chapter on Hospitals for the Insane in "Medieval Hospitals of England,"[17] Miss Clay gives a number of details of the care of the insane in England, and notes that the Rolls of Parliament (1414) mention "hospitals ... to maintain men and women who had lost their wits and memory"; manifestly they had some experience which differentiated cases of aphasia from those of insanity. She says that outside of London "it was customary to receive persons suffering from attacks of mania into general infirmaries. At Holy Trinity, Salisbury, not only were sick persons and women in childbirth received, but mad people were to be taken care of (_furiosi custodiantur donec sensum adipiscantur_). This was at the close of the fourteenth century. In the petition for the reformation of hospitals (1414), it is stated that they existed partly to maintain those who had lost their wits and memory (_hors de leur sennes et mémoire_)." Further evidence of the presence of the insane with other patients is to be found in the fact that in certain hospitals and almshouses it was forbidden to receive the insane, showing that in many places that must have been the custom. Miss Clay notes: "Many almshouse-statutes, however, prohibited their admission. A regulation concerning an endowed bed in St. John's, Coventry (1444), declared that a candidate must be 'not mad, quarrelsome, leprous, infected.' At Ewelme 'no wood man' [crazy person] must be received; and an inmate becoming 'madd, or woode,' was to be removed from the Croydon almshouse." Desmaisons is responsible for the tradition which declares there were no asylums for the insane until the beginning of the fifteenth century, and that then they were founded by the Spaniards under the influence of the Mohammedans. Lecky, in his "History of European Morals," has contradicted this assertion of Desmaisons', and declares that there is absolutely no proof for it. Burdett, in his "History of Hospitals," vol. i., p. 42, says with regard to this question: