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Title: The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses

Author: Robert Charles Hope

Release Date: August 19, 2009 [EBook #29737]

Language: English

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THE LEPER IN ENGLAND:

WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF

English Lazar Houses.

WITH NOTES.

BY

ROBERT CHARLES HOPE, F.S.A., F.R.S.L.,

_Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn.
Member of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain._

_Editor of Barnabe Googe's "Popish Kingdome."
Author of "Glossary of Dialectal Place-Nomenclature."
"An Inventory of the Church Plate in Rutland."
"English Goldsmiths," &c., &c._

SCARBOROUGH: JOHN HAGYARD, PRINTER, "GAZETTE" ST. NICHOLAS STREET.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

TITLE 1

DEDICATION 3

CONTENTS 5

FORESPEECH 7

THE LEPROSY OF SCRIPTURE 9

THE LEPROSY OF THE MIDDLE AGES 13

LAZAR HOUSES 16

STATUS OF LEPERS 26

SUMMARY 29

APPENDIX A.--NOTES 39

" B.--ENGLISH LAZAR HOUSES 43

Dedicated
TO
THE VEN. R. FREDERICK L. BLUNT, A.K.C., M.A., D.D.,
ARCHDEACON OF THE EAST RIDING; CANON RESIDENTIARY OF YORK;
VICAR OF SCARBOROUGH;
CHAPLAIN-IN-ORDINARY TO THE QUEEN; SURROGATE;
FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON;
CHAPLAIN TO THE ROYAL NORTHERN SEA-BATHING INFIRMARY, SCARBOROUGH,
WHO OCCUPIED THE CHAIR ON THE OCCASION, AND AT WHOSE REQUEST,
THE LECTURE WAS DELIVERED.

FORESPEECH.

The subject matter embraced within these covers, consists chiefly of
notes, made for a lecture d