[57] Historiae Ecclesiasticae Selecta Capita, tom. iii. p. 170.

[58] On the north-west side of the ruins of the Kingcase Hospital Chapel, Ayr, the burial-place of the leper bedesmen is still pointed out, but the numerous and marked “undulations of the green sward” are their only tombstone.

[59] MS. Records of the Town-Council of Edinburgh, vol. ix. p. 123.

[60] Ancient Records of the Burgh of Prestwick. Glasgow, 1834, p. 40.

[61] Surtees’ Durham, vol. i. 128.

[62] Index Monast. p. 55.

[63] Monasticon Anglicanum, tom. ii. p. 390.

[64] Paris, Historia Anglor. edit. of 1644, Additam. p. 169.

[65] As in the hospital of St. Laurence, Canterbury, which contained lepers of both sexes. See Strype’s Life of Archbishop Parker, 1791, vol. i. p. 224.

[66] Surtees’ Durham, vol. i. p. 286.