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this hospital has been preserved, as well as many particulars 

 regarding its internal economy. The daily allowance of 

 each leper inmate was a loaf weighing five marks, and a 

 gallon of ale, in addition a mess of flesh three days in the 

 week, and of fish, cheese, or butter the remaining four. 

 Every day they had the seventh part of a razer (rasarium) 

 of bean meal, and some pulse to make gruel, and they 

 had special extra allowances on certain days. Each leper 

 had a yearly allowance for his clothing of three yards of 

 woollen cloth, white or russet, six yards of linen, six of 

 canvas. Four fires of peat were allowed for the whole 

 community, and at Christmas they had four yule logs, 

 each a cartload ; four trusses of straw three times a year, 

 four bundles of rushes three times a year, and on the 

 anniversary of Martin de Santa Cruce every leper received 

 five shilhngs and five pence in money. The rules of the 

 house were very strict and the religious duties austere. 

 All the leprous brethren whose health permitted were 

 every day expected to attend matins, nones, vespers and 

 complines. The bed-ridden sick were enjoined to raise 

 themselves and say matins in their bed ; and for those 

 who are weaker "let them rest in peace and say what they 

 can say " (et quod dicere possint, dicant). During Lent and 

 Advent all were required to receive corporal discipline 

 three days in the week. 



They were punished for disobedience or idleness at the 

 discretion of the Prior, by corporal correction with the 

 birch — " modo scholaimnir 



At the large estabhshment of St. Julian at St. Albans, 

 the rules and regulations have also been preserved and are 

 very full and precise.* The dietary table seems to have 

 been much the same as at Sherburne, but on the Feast of 

 the Nativity of the Blessed Mary each leper received an 

 obolus " which is the charity of the hospital," and at the 



* Paris, Historia Angli. 



