including chapel with its altar _in situ_, are left.

" S. Nicholas. Maude the Empress.

Sheffield S. Leonard.

Whitby S. John the Baptist. Founded by Abbot William de Percy,
1109. For one Leper[A].

[A] Who gave to it the wood and thorny ground adjacent to the
spot. The building being for the habitation of one Leper
only, one Orme being the first, was necessarily small. Orme
was supplied with his provisions daily from the Abbey. After
him Geoffrey Mansell, a Leprous monk of Whitby also lived
here in solitude. On his death the hospital ceased to be used
as a Lazar House, and was enlarged for the reception of
several poor people both healthy and sick, Robert de Alnett
being appointed master of it.

Yarm S. Nicholas. Founded by Robert de Brus, _c._ 1180.

York (4) S. Mary Magdalene.

" S. Nicholas. Early _c._ 1110. For men and women.

" S. Oswald. Founded by Bishop Oswald, 1268.

* * * * *

_This is not a complete list of all the Lazar Houses once existing in
England, but has been hurriedly compiled from Dugdale's Mon. Ang. vol.
vi.; Lewis' Top. Dic. of England; Promptorium Parvulorum; Historic
Towns--Exeter, by Professor Freeman, and other sources._

* * * * *

JOHN HAGYARD, PRINTER, ST. NICHOLAS STREET, SCARBOROUGH.

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