Preface by the Lord Bishop of Bristol

vii

Introduction

xvii

PART I

CHAPTER I Hospitals for Wayfarers and the Sick

1

CHAPTER II Homes for the Feeble and Destitute

15

CHAPTER III Homes for the Insane

31

CHAPTER IV The Lazar-House

35

CHAPTER V The Leper in England

48

CHAPTER VI Founders and Benefactors

70

CHAPTER VII Hospital Inmates

91

CHAPTER VIII Hospital Dwellings

106

CHAPTER IX The Constitution

126

CHAPTER X The Household and its Members

143

CHAPTER XI Care of the Soul

158

CHAPTER XII Care of the Body

167

CHAPTER XIII Hospital Funds

178

CHAPTER XIV Relations with Church and State

194

CHAPTER XV Decline of the Hospitals

212

CHAPTER XVI The Dissolution of Religious Houses and its Effect upon Hospitals

226

PART II Hospital Patron-Saints

244

APPENDIX A Office at the Seclusion of a Leper

273

APPENDIX B Tabulated List of Foundations

278

Bibliography

339

General Index

343