Lazar-house

John Gilbert, in his deed of 1538, states, that he had purchased three messuages and two little closes adjoining, by the highway-side near Newton Bushell, and that it was his intention to build a lazar-house, for the reception of a greater number of lazars than the three cottages would contain, with a chapel ; the house and the closes to be occupied by the said lazars : he gives the sum of 220 marks to the corporation, on condition that they should pay yearly the sum of 4l. per annum to the lazars in the said house.

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In 1473 there existed a lazar-house for the reception of those afflicted with leprosy, at Eche near Sandwich.

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Let them seize the woman and put her in a lazar-house, and for a year let her grind [flour] for the lepers.

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In The Ruin and Recovery of Mankind (1740), Watts takes up the old 17th century view of the world as a hospital or lazar-house:

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