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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… June with a good cargazoon, but finding that famine and pestilence had so ranged all those parts that there were not …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it was found that rents had fallen so much owing to the pestilence that the original endowments no longer sufficed to …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… tyranny, which, while raging, is to be dreaded more than pestilence or famine. Unrestrained men, we know, have become …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Gwynedd," in which he resided until the period when the pestilence called Y Vd Velen, or "the yellow fever," nearly …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… devolving upon the provost during this period of war and pestilence, ordered one hundred merks to be added to his … had its population been reduced by the ravages of war and pestilence, that, in case of assault, scarcely a hundred men …
Middlesex county records
… so small and slightly populated a town was a nursery of pestilence, one must have regard for the crowded …
Middlesex county records
… last week of April, 1666. However much the horrors of the pestilence may have deadened their sensibilities, it cannot … divers of the King's lieges, 'that there was then a great pestilence in the land because justice wasnot executed in the …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… et la ou le pere de fer soleit estre vendue devant la pestilence pur trois deniers, ils le vendont ore pur .xij. … whereas a stone of iron used to be sold for 3d. before the pestilence, it is now sold for 12d., to the great damage and …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… este tant annientiz et destruitz cea enariere, quoy par pestilence des gentz et servantz quoy par moryne des bestes, … have been so ruined and destroyed previously, both by the pestilence affecting people and servants and by the murrain … in the pipe of the exchequer; whereby before this last pestilence each sheriff lost 100 yearly, and now as a result …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… qe ne se poeit bonement tenir adonqes, par cause de la pestilence q'estoit bien aspre a mesme le temps, et par tant … Et puis en cea ad il este destourbe, primes par la dit pestilence qe dura bien longement, et puis par l'occupacion … could not be properly held at that time because of the pestilence which was extremely severe at the same time, and …