What does lazar-house mean?
Lazar-house means Alternative form of lazar house..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of 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.
In 1473 there existed a lazar-house for the reception of those afflicted with leprosy, at Eche near Sandwich.
Let them seize the woman and put her in a lazar-house, and for a year let her grind [flour] for the lepers.
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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Lazar-house means Alternative form of lazar house..
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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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