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Calendar of the plea and memoranda rolls of the city of London

… both wages and prices at the level obtaining before the pestilence, and enjoined upon all Mayors and bailiffs to hold …

Introduction

Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting

… owing in all probability to the ravages of the plague or pestilence known as the "Black Death," which, breaking out in …

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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies

… blow to the prosperity of the colony during 1732 was the pestilence that swept over Charleston during the summer. It …

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Calendar of State Papers, Spain (Simancas)

… that many have been thrown overboard to save the men from pestilence." In great trouble and anxiety, orders were sent …

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Calendar of State Papers, Spain

… breathing time, beset as he was with poverty, famine and pestilence; whilst his own mercenaries were standing idle, …

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Calendar of State Papers, Spain

… of a more serious nature. During the great wars in Italy, pestilence was generally raging in that country. All the … had not been calculated to improve the finances. A raging pestilence was generally a fortunate godsend for the revenues … great number of sees vacated by victims of the plague. The pestilence which prevailed during the whole of the reign of …

Introduction

Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House

Introduction, Section 3

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII

… houses of Spaniards and others. "There is much famine and pestilence here, but it has not been possible to leave, …

Introduction, Section 7

Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII

… writes Gardiner, "that in summer the south wind brings pestilence here from a river within a mile of the city. The …

Introduction: Miscellaneous notes

The medieval records of a London City church

… 272; the clerk of St. Dunstan's who died in poverty of the pestilence, p. 84; how the churchwardens sometimes let out …