[67] In a passage breathing the very spirit and prejudices of the middle ages, Mezeray states that during all the twelfth century, two very cruel evils (deux maux tres cruels) reigned in France, viz. leprosy and usury; one of which (he adds) infected the body, while the other ruined families.—Histoire de France, tom. ii. p. 169.
[68] Historia Anglor. etc., Appendix, p. 164.
[69] De l’Origine de Chevalrie, chap. ix. p. 126.
[70] Le Histoire du Clerge Seculier, etc. See Table from it in Taylor’s Index Monasticus, p. xxvii.
[71] Helyot’s Histoire des Ordres Religieux (edit. of 1792), vol. i. p. 257.
[72] Rivius’ Historia Monast. Occident. (1737), p. 223.
[73] History and Antiquities of Leicester, vol. ii. p. 72.
[74] There was in England at least one alien cell of Lazarites, at Lokhay, Derbyshire, subject to a French house. Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, p. 83.
[75] Monasticon Anglicanum, 2d ed. vi. p. 632. Notitia Monastica, p. 239.
[76] MS. Chartulary of Newbottle Abbey, p. 205, Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh. Since writing the above I find that Maitland, in his History of Scotland, includes, but without any references or details, the institution of Lazarites at Linlithgow, among his meagre list of Scottish Hospitals, vol. i. p. 269.