[7] Velley, etc., Histoire, ii. p. 292.
[8] Mezeray, Histoire de France, tom. ii. 1645, p. 168. “Il n’y avoit n’y ville, n’y bourgade, qui ne fust obligée de bâtir un hospital pour les (Lepres) retirer.”
[9] Antiquitates Italicæ Medii Aevi, tom. iii. p. 53. “In Italia vix ulla erat civitas quæ non aliquem locum, Leprosis destinatum, haberet.”
[10] Acta Sanctorum a Patribus Soc. Jesu Antuerpiæ Collecta. Holst in his Work on Radesyge (Morbus quem Radesyge vocant: Christianae, 1817), refers to the works of Smid and Petersen, as showing that Denmark formerly suffered much from leprous diseases (morbis Leprosis olim graviter vexatam fuisse), p. 90.
[11] For reference to the prevalence of leprosy and leper hospitals in Ireland, see Ledwich’s Antiquities of Ireland (Dublin, 1804), p. 370.
[12] Terms manifestly (according to Junius, Johnson, Richardson, etc.) mere corruptions of the word hospital.
[13] Manuscript Chartulary of the Priory of Coldingham, p. 25. Advocates Library, Edinburgh. In the above Latin extract the original orthography is preserved.
[14] Liber de Sanctæ Mariæ de Melros. Presented by the Duke of Buccleuch to the Bannatyne Club, Edin. 1839, tom. i. p. 70. See also Morton’s Monastic Annals of Teviotdale, 1832, p. 265.
[15] Stat. Ac. of Scotland, No. xvi. p. 75.
[16] Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, 1163-1529. Presented by the Earl of Glasgow to the Maitland Club, tom. i. p. 21. I am indebted to Mr. E. Thomson of Edinburgh, and formerly of Ayr, for pointing out to me the fact and inference in the text.