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Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London
… without number died of hunger; and there was also a great pestilence among the rest of the people. The quarter of wheat …
A History of the County of York
… horrible and pernicious air' and increasing the danger of pestilence. 94 In 1419 the canons of the minster had to be …
A History of the County of York
… Perhaps the explanation is that this was a year of pestilence. 6 As a footnote to this story of the courts of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the calamities of hostile incursions and destructive pestilence, Winchester sank under that ordinance of Edward … prosperity of New Alresford declined. A fire of 1440 and a pestilence in the reign of Edward IV completed the ruin of …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… between 1332 and 1377 there were three visitations of the pestilence The excessive number of deaths might be regarded …
Old and New London
… and for reviling him when complained of. There was a pestilence raging at the time, and the mayor was afraid of …
The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, etc.
… St. Germain's, and especially by the English exiles, from pestilence and famine in 1694 and 1695. When she wrote this …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from 5 12 s. 5 d. to 3 12 s. owing to deaths in the pestilence. 275 Their lands lay 'fallow and uncultivated' and … 'for almost all the men in these parts are dead in this pestilence'. Cultivation of the demesne land suffered: only 5 … and was stated to be 'no more than 30 s. on account of the pestilence'. 375 It is possible that the market suffered …
Staffordshire Historical Collections
… 20 marks, and that the same Priory as well by the pestilence which lately raged and afterwards by a certain …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… officiating minister, died in August the same year from a pestilence, and during September and October there was no …