[242] Fuller’s Historie of the Holy Warre (3d edit. 1647), p. 101.
[243] Oeuvres de Rabelais (Paris, 1835), p. 666.
[244] Bellenden’s Transl. of Boece’s Chroniklis of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 102 (edit. of 1821). Dempster’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum (1627), p. 278.
[245] Spottiswood’s History of the Church of Scotland (edit. of 1665), p. 21. See also Fiacre’s story in Lesslie de Origine, Moribus, etc., Scotorum (1578), p. 156.
[246] The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland (Macpherson’s edit.), vol. ii. p. 136.
[247] I have already shown in Part I. that the name here given to the leprosy by the old French historian exactly corresponds with the Anglo-Saxon designation of the disease “seo mycle adhl.” It perhaps deserves to be added that (as appears from a paper of Dr. Ainslie—Asiatic Researches, vol. i. p. 287) the term “Peri Vishadi,” applied to tubercular leprosy by the Brahmins of Hindustan, also literally signifies “the great disease.”
[248] Sir John Froissart’s Chronycles of England, France, etc., translated at the command of Henry VIII. by Lord Berners (London, edit. of 1812), vol. i. p. 19. In p. 28, he again states, “it fortuned that King Robert was right sore aged and feble, for he was greatly changed with the great sicknes, so that there was no way with him but death.”
[249] Froissart, Histoire et Cronique (edit. of 1559), vol. i. p. 13.
[250] Collection des Memoires Nationelles, etc., tom. x. p. 61.
[251] Johnes’ English edit. of Froissart’s Chronicles(1839), pp. 18 and 26.