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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to Oriel College, as a retreat for the students in time of pestilence. Cowley COWLEY, a township, in the parish of …
Grey's Debates of the House of Commons
… To put so many together is but to throw the plague and pestilence amongst them. It has been said, "That the Dutch …
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… for the first ten years, and 34 l. afterwards if no great pestilence come to those parts &c. 6 June, 13 Richard II. …
Old and New London
… in 1665: "There died in our parish this year 406 of the pestilence," and he afterwards tells us that his wife and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… worth 60 s. a year could not be valued 'because of the pestilence', and income from assize rents had fallen from £4 … in common in 1355 after the deaths of their tenants in the pestilence, and at Quatt a fall of two thirds in the value of 2 carucates of demesne was still being blamed on the pestilence in 1357. 44 Some of the land in the manor of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… expected, for these miserable times full fraught with war, pestilence, and famine have occasioned the reservation "of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… story of the miserable afflictions of those parts by war, pestilence, and famine; nor have their servants escaped, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… Fuller, Minister. The famine in India was followed by pestilence, both which destroyed infinite numbers of people; …