I have been enabled to compile the following English Lazar Houses, which is however far from being a complete one. These Lazar Houses were founded by the charitably disposed, and were usually under ecclesiastical rule:-- 1 Berkshire. 2 Buckinghamshire. 2 Cambridgeshire. 3 Cornwall. 1 Cumberland. 4 Derbyshire. 6 Devonshire. 3 Dorsetshire. 2 Durham. 4 Essex. 6 Gloucestershire. 2 Hampshire. 1 Herefordshire 6 Hertfordshire. 1 Huntingdonshire. 15 Kent. 1 Lancashire. 2 Lincolnshire. 4 Leicestershire. 7 Middlesex. 22 Norfolk. 5 Northamptonshire. 3 Northumberland. 3 Nottinghamshire. 4 Oxfordshire. 2 Shropshire. 6 Somersetshire. 3 Staffordshire. 10 Suffolk. 1 Surrey. 6 Sussex. 3 Warwickshire. 4 Westmoreland. 7 Wiltshire. 1 Worcester. 20 Yorkshire. Total: 173 They were presumably under the rule of S. Austin or Augustine. Chalmers' _Caledonia_ states 9 hospitals existed in the County of Berwick alone. It is said that, by a Bull of Alexander III., exemption from the payment of tithes was granted to all the possessions of the Lazar Houses; this, however, does not appear to have always been acted upon, at least in this country, as at Canterbury, etc. A Prior--usually a Leper--and a number of Priests were attached to each house. Where a chapel was not attached, the inmates appear to have attended the parish church for service. There was a special order of Knights founded very early, in Jerusalem, united to the general order of the Knights Hospitallers, whose especial province was to look after the sick, particularly Lepers. They seem to have separated from the Knights Hospitallers at the end of the 11th, or beginning of the 12th centuries. They were at first designated Knights of S. Lazarus, or, of SS. Lazarus and Mary of Jerusalem, from the locality of their original establishment, and from their central preceptory being near Jerusalem. The Master or Prior of the Superior Order was a Leper, that he might be more in sympathy with his afflicted brethren. They were afterwards united by different European princes, with the Military Orders of Notre Dame and Mount Carmel, and, in 1572 with that of S. Maurice. We first hear of them in England, in the reign of King Stephen, when they seem to have made their headquarters at Burton-Lazars, near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, where a rich and famous Lazar House was built by a general subscription throughout the country, and greatly aided by the munificence of Robert de Mowbray. The Lazar-houses of S. Leonard's, Sheffield; Tilton, in Leicestershire; Holy Innocents', Lincoln; S. Giles', London; SS. Mary and Erkemould, Ilford, Essex; and the preceptory of Chosely, in Norfolk, besides many others, were annexed to it, as cells containing _fratres leprosos de Sancto Lazaro de Jerusalem_. The house received at least 35 different charters, confirmed by various sovereigns. Camden in his _Britannia_, p. 447,