BURTON-LAZARS, a chapelry in the parish of
MELTON-MOWBRAY, hundred of FRAMLAND, county of
LEICESTER, if mile (S. E. by S.) from Melton-Mowbray,
containing 249 inhabitants. The chapel is dedicated to
St. James. In the reign of Stephen, an hospital, dedicated
to the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Lazarus, was
founded here by a general collection throughout England,
the principal contributor being Roger de Mowbray,
who gave two carucates of land, a house, a mill, &c.: it
was dependent on the great house at Jerusalem, and was
the chief of all the lazar-houses in England: the revenue,
in the 26th of Henry VIII., was estimated at
£265.10. 2. It stood .near a spring, the water of which
was formerly in high repute for curing the leprosy: a
bath and a drinking-room were built about 1760, and
are frequented by persons afflicted with scrofulous and
scorbutic disorders.