Produced by Julie Barkley, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net THE LEPER IN ENGLAND: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF English Lazar Houses. WITH NOTES. BY ROBERT CHARLES HOPE, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., _Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn. Member of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain._ _Editor of Barnabe Googe's "Popish Kingdome." Author of "Glossary of Dialectal Place-Nomenclature." "An Inventory of the Church Plate in Rutland." "English Goldsmiths," &c., &c._ SCARBOROUGH: JOHN HAGYARD, PRINTER, "GAZETTE" ST. NICHOLAS STREET. CONTENTS. PAGE TITLE 1 DEDICATION 3 CONTENTS 5 FORESPEECH 7 THE LEPROSY OF SCRIPTURE 9 THE LEPROSY OF THE MIDDLE AGES 13 LAZAR HOUSES 16 STATUS OF LEPERS 26 SUMMARY 29 APPENDIX A.--NOTES 39 " B.--ENGLISH LAZAR HOUSES 43 Dedicated TO THE VEN. R. FREDERICK L. BLUNT, A.K.C., M.A., D.D., ARCHDEACON OF THE EAST RIDING; CANON RESIDENTIARY OF YORK; VICAR OF SCARBOROUGH; CHAPLAIN-IN-ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN; SURROGATE; FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON; CHAPLAIN TO THE ROYAL NORTHERN SEA-BATHING INFIRMARY, SCARBOROUGH, WHO OCCUPIED THE CHAIR ON THE OCCASION, AND AT WHOSE REQUEST, THE LECTURE WAS DELIVERED. FORESPEECH. The subject matter embraced within these covers, consists chiefly of notes, made for a lecture delivered in Christ Church Schoolroom, Scarborough, on Thursday, March 5th, 1891, and is published by special request. No claim for originality is made. The works of the late Sir James Y. Simpson, Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, (Archaeological Essays, Vol. II.); Sir Risdon Bennett, M.D., LL.D., F.B.S., "Diseases of the Bible"; Dr. Greenhill, in "Bible Educator"; Leland's "Itinerary"; Dugdale's "Monasticon," &c., &c., have been freely drawn upon, and to these writers, therefore, it is the desire here to acknowledge the indebtedness which is due. Various Notes will be found in the Appendix, which it is hoped will prove of interest. THE LEPER IN ENGLAND. There is perhaps no subject of greater interest, nor one which awakens more sympathy, than that of the Leper; it affords a most curious, though painful topic of enquiry, particularly in the present day, when so much has been said and written, as to the probability and possibility of the loathsome scourge again obtaining a hold in this, our own country.