[1]THE
LEPER IN ENGLAND:
WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF
English Lazar Houses.
WITH NOTES.
BY
ROBERT CHARLES HOPE, F.S.A., F.R.S.L.,
[2]Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Lincoln’s Inn.
Member of the Royal Archæological 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.
[3]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.
[4]
CONTENTS.[5]
| 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[6] |
FORESPEECH.[7]
The subject matter embraced within these covers,consists chiefly of notes, made for a lecture delivered inChrist Church Schoolroom, Scarborou