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sit by the side and hold out a box for alms, hung by a 

 chain at the end of a pole, and the identical box used at 

 the house founded by Lanfranc at Harbledown, near Canter- 

 bury, is still preserved. 



In Scotland there were many Lazarettos, the two most 

 notable being at Kingcase, near Ayr, and Greenside, near 

 Edinburgh. 



In Gloucester there were certainly two, and possibly 

 three. Lazarettos. One dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene 

 belonged to the Priory of Llanthony, the other, St. 

 Margaret's, was attached to the Abbey of St. Peter ; they 

 were both of course, as was the invariable custom, out- 

 side the walls, and the chapels of both are still standing. 

 The first record of the existence of lepers in Gloucester 

 is seen in a document by which Alured, Bishop of Wor- 

 cester from 1 153 to 1 163, granted them leave to be buried 

 in their own churchyard at St. Margaret's. 



Mr Bartleet has written an interesting account of the 

 Gloucester leper-houses in the Transactions of the Bristol 

 and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 



The only other known Lazarettos in Gloucestershire 

 were one at Tewkesbury, and several in and about Bristol. 



At the Assize opened by the Justices in Eyre at Glou- 

 cester* on the 2ist June, 1221, it was presented that 

 (translation) " two coffins of lead were found in the court- 

 yard of Robert de Aqua full of bones." Such treasure 

 trove belongs to the Crown, but the Judges directed as to 

 the coffins and bones " let them be given to the lepers." 

 This was more humane treatment than was at one time 

 accorded to them in Scotland, for a decree has been pre- 

 served of the Council of Edinburgh that " any putrid or 

 rotten fish condemned in the market was to be sent out- 

 side the town to the lipper folk." 



* Maitland's Pleas of the Crown for the County of Gloucester. 



