dered to be built in 1176.

Twenty-one parishes used to send their lepers to this hospital, and
those who could not pay their fees were helped to do so from the
parish purse. In 1478 each leper was obliged to bring with him (among
other things), a bed with its sheets, all his body-linen and towels,
his cooking pots and table ware, and various articles of clothing,
besides 62 sous 1 denier for the prior, 5 sous for the servants,[21]
and three "hanaps" or drinking vessels, one of silver. Evidently all
this was not what a poor patient could often afford, and we find,
without surprise, the parish St. John objecting to the rule in case of
one Perrecte Deshays, who had been sent there by order of the
officials, and could not possibly afford the list of necessaries
claimed by the prior. So a compromise was made that for all lepers in
the twenty-one parishes who could not give what the rules required, a
sum of twenty livres from the parish authorities would be accepted as
an equivalent. The treasurers of every parish were bound, in the
public safety, to report to the proper town official every case of
leprosy within their bounds. This official then took medical advice
about the sick person, and if the leprosy was certified ordered the
sequestration of the invalid. The acts in which these orders were
carried out continue very frequent, even in the first half of the
sixteenth century, and especially in the parish of Octeville. The
leper was conducted to the hospital with exactly the same ceremony as
was used for the interment of the dead, and was followed by all the
members of the confrerie to which he belonged, and preceded by a
mourner ringing a dirge. One of the statutes of a confrerie ordaining
this procession has been preserved (Arch. de la Seine Inferieure, G.
5,238):--"Le seroient tenus convoier jusques a sa malladerie le
maistre et varlets portans leurs sourplis et capperons vestus a toult
la croix et banniere et clochette, et sy luy feroit l'en semblable
service comme a ung trespasse en l'eglise ou il seroit demourant en
lad. ville et sy seroit led. varlet tenu crier par les carfours comme
pour ung trespasse."

[Footnote 21: The complete list has been printed from the archives of
Rouen by M. Ch. de Beaurepaire.]

Another of these charitable refuges for lepers was built for Rouen by
an English king in 1183 at Petit-Quevilly, outside the town on the
south side of the Seine. The Hospital of St. Julien was placed by King