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Hospital of St Lazarus

Early-attested site in the Parish of Burton and Dalby

Historical Forms

  • hospitalis Sancti Lazari de Brottun' 1235 Cl
  • hospitalis de Burton' 1236,1237 RGros 1271 Pat
  • hospitalis de Burton Sancti Lazari 1319,1364 1461 ib
  • hospitalis de Burton Sancti Lazari de Ierusalem in Anglia 1461,1464 ib
  • Hospital de Burton Sancti Lazari 1554 Deed
  • Domus S. Lazari de Burton 1422 BM
  • domus vel hospital de Burton Sancti Lazari de Ierusalem in Anglia 1473,1477 Pat

Etymology

v. hospital . Note also MLat  domus 'a hospice, a hospital, a religious house' and MLat  hospital (hospitalis gen.sg.) 'a hospice, a hospital'.