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A History of the County of Berkshire
… whole mill was said to be worth nothing, because of the pestilence. 68 Newbury, however, recovered fairly quickly. …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… and Westmorland, and its population had been reduced by pestilence. 202 In the time of the Commonwealth the town was …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of their impoverishment by the late queen's death, by pestilence and other misfortunes,'the fee farm was fixed at …
Old and New London
… Sermon. In the year 1348 (Edward III.) a terrible pestilence devastated London. The dirt and crowding of the … in this cemetery, recording the burial there during the pestilence of 50,000 persons. In 1361, Michael de Northburgh, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the first chapel of King's College 'for the aier and the Pestilence that hath long regned in our said Universite'. 175 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the town, 'a thing dangerous in time of infection'. 17 The pestilence of 13489 ushered in 300 years of similar recurrent …
Magna Britannia
… besides paupers. This was soon after a very destructive pestilence. Nevertheless, in the year 1390, though a second pestilence had in the mean time occurred, Carlisle, if we may …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of records is the explanation, and not the absence of the pestilence, as cases occurred as near as Appledram. 74 For …
A History of the County of Durham
… came from without in the shape of Scottish invader, or of pestilence and famine. The first rumours of troubles with the … and drowning men, women and children. Once more murrain, pestilence, and general want fell upon the city and … 60 In the midst of these operations a terrible visit of pestilence fell upon Durham in 1416, 61 and also, later, in …