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another. However, I (hall in a few Words make it 
appear that this Obje&ion is likewife groundlefs, by 
obferving that the firft Englifhmen that went over to 
the Holy War, made their firft Voyage in the Y ear 
1096, as our Hiftorians generally agree, and that 
fome of them returned in 1098, two Years alter that 
Expedition; but mod certain it is, we had the Leprofy 
among us before, for Wharton, de Epifcopis Londinenjibus, 
and other Hiftorians a (lure us, that Hugo de Orivalle, 
one of the Bifhops of London, died here ol: the Leprofy 
in the Year 1084, which proves our Countrymen did 
nor bring that Difeafe firft from the Holy War, becaufe 
we had it among us before. The account William of 
Malmesbury gives of this Bifhop’s Difeaie, is as follows* 
Is pofl paucos ordinationis annos in morbum incur abilem in* 
cidit . Siquidem regia Faletudo totum corpus ejus pitru- 
lentis ulcer ibus cccupans ad pudendum remedium tranfmifit: 
Nam credens affercntibus unicum fore fubfidium ft vafi 
humor urn receptacula, verenda fcilicet , exfecan/ur, non abnuit. 
1 tuque & opprobrium fpadonis tulit Epifcopus , <& nullum 
invenit remedium , quoad vixit leprofus* Now its highly 
probable, had this been a new Difeafe the Bifhop died 
of, the mention of it as fuch, would not have efcaped 
our Hiftorian, but on the contrary it feems to have 
been anciently known among us, becaufe the Remedy 
made ufe of for it was fo, it having been recommended 
by JElius , and other Phyfical Writers feveral hundred 
Years before this time; and I think its very plain 
that the cutting off the Tefticles f and with them the 
Veflels formed for the receiving the Humours as ex- 
prefied in the former Cafe, was by them looked upon 
to be of peculiar Service, becaufe its probable that ob- 
lerving the Difeafe to begin in thefe and the neigh-* 
bouring Parts, they thought the very Miner a Morbid 
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