omnium
Sanctorum meritis et intercessione confisi: Omnibus vere
poenitentibus et confessis, qui ad dictam Ecclesiam causa
peregrinationis Dominica in qua canitur: _Isti sunt dies_, et die
Sabbathi et die Veneris immediate praecedentibus accesserint, vel
praenominatae Ecclesiae manum suam porrexerint, adjutorium dictis
diebus vel aliis eleemosynas largiendo, 40 dies de injunctis sibi
poenitentiis misericorditer relaxamus. Datum Gournaii anno Domini
1278, die Veneris ante Festum B. Dionysii."

[71] The capitals in the former of these plates are all selected from
the nave; in the latter, those marked E, H, M, are taken from the
columns placed at the intersection of the transepts; and G, I, K, and O,
from the choir. L and N represent consols to ribs in the aisles.

[72] _Turner's Tour in Normandy_, II. p. 44.

PLATES XLII. AND XLIII.

CHAPEL OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JULIEN, NEAR ROUEN.

[Illustration: Plate 42. CHAPEL OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JULIEN, NEAR
ROUEN.
_South side._]

The chapel figured in these plates is all that now remains of a
monastery, which, at the period of the revolution, was one of the most
magnificent in the vicinity of Rouen. It was then likewise almost
altogether new: Farin, in his history of the city, printed in 1731,
states that, at the time when he wrote, the monks of the order of the
Chartreux, the then occupants of the priory, had just began to rebuild
the great cloister, according to a very simple and magnificent
design.[73] But the revolutionary commotions levelled the whole with the
ground, sparing only the unassuming chapel, which has since served as a
wood-house for the neighboring farmer.

The convent itself underwent many changes of owners. It was originally
founded in 1183, by Henry II. King of England and Duke of Normandy, as a
priory, under the invocation of St. Julien, for the reception of
unmarried females of rank, who, having the misfortune to be affected
with leprosy, devoted themselves to a religious life. That terrible
disease, happily almost unknown except by tradition, in our days, was in
those times of so frequent occurrence, that legislative enactments were
repeatedly necessary to restrain its ravages. In the history of the
councils of the Norman church, allusions to the subject are often to be
found. Lepers were forbidden to migrate, even from one lazar-house to
another; they were not allowed to set their foot in any city or
fortress; and,