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being abfolutely ncceflary in this defign, I lh.all do 
ir as briefly as I can from what Remains I have met 
with in Records, and other fcattered Papers. Firft 
then, after the Perfons appointed to examine the dif 
eafed, had comforted them, by telling them this Dif- 
temper might prove a Spiritual Advantage ; and if 
they were found to be Leprous, it was to be locked 
upon as their Purgatory in this World ; and although 
they were denied the World, they were chofen of 
God : the Perfon was then to fwear to Anfwer truly 
to all fuch Queftions as they fhould be asked; but 
the Examiners were very cautious in their enquiries, 
lead a Perfon that was not really Leprous fhould be 
committed, which they looked upon to be an al- 
mod unpardonable Crime : They confidered the Signs 
as Uni vocal, which properly belonged to that Difeafe, 
or Equivocal, which might belong to another, and 
did not upon the appearance of one or two Signs, 
determine the Perfon to be a Lazar ; and this I find to 
be the Cafe of the Wife of John Nightingale Efq ; 
of Burntvrood in Effex, who in the Reign of Edw. the 
lVth An. 1468 being reported to be a Lazare , and 
that fhedid converfe and communicate with Perfons 
in publick and private Places, and not (according to 
cuftom) retire her felf, but refufed fo to do, was 
accordingly examined by William H at te cliff, Roger Mar- 
call, and Dominion de Serego the Kings Phyficians} but 
they upon Arid enquiry adjudged her not to be Le- 
prous, by reafon the Appearances of the Difeafe were 
not fufhcient .* Some of the Queftions put to the Le- 
prous Perfons (as they called them) which will more 
fully confirm what I have before advanced, I {hall 
now give as 1 tranfcribed them from an Ancient Book 
of Surgery yf there were any of his tygtMge that 
he knew to be Lazar es and effect all) their Fader s 
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