Excerpt from Somerset Medieval Wills: 1531-1558 They Show, for instance, that leprosy was fairly common in our county at this date. There were at least two colonies of lepers in Somerset, one near Langport, and the hospital of St. Margaret, near Taunton. It appears that the Langport hospital was at Westover (p. Midway between that town and the parish of Curry Rive]. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.