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The Black Death

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by Philip Ziegler


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  14 ‘Chronicon ma jus Aegidii Li Muisis’, De Smet, Vol. 11, p. 280.

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  1 E. M. Carus Wilson, Mediaeval Merchant Venturers, London 1945, p. 240 et seq.

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  2 G. A. Holmes, The Estates of the Higher Nobility in 14th Century England, Cambridge, 1957, p.5.

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  3 E. B. Fryde, ‘The Last Trials of Sir William de Pole’, Econ. Hist. Rev. Ser., Vol. XV, 1962, p. 17.

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  4 E. A. Kosminsky, Studies in the Agrarian History of England, Oxford, 1956, pp. 3 22–3.

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  5 J. C. Russell, British Mediaeval Population, Albuquerque, 1948, p. 287.

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  6 This figure is far from uncontested. Bennett suggests it may have been as low as 5,000 but most authorities agree that it lost population heavily between 1348 and 1377 and the poll tax figure for the latter date (always an under-estimate) was nearly 6,000.

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  7 ‘A 14th Century Chronicle from the Grey Friars at Lynn’, ed. A. Grandsen, Eng. Hist. Rev., Vol. LXXII, 1957, p. 2. 74.

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  8 Chronica Monasterii de Melsa, R.S. 43 III, p.68. See also Higden’s Polychronicon, R.S. 41 VIII, 355.

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  9 Knighton, op. cit., p. 61.

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  10 Capgrave, ed. F.C. Hingeston, R.S. 1, p. 213.

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  11 Eulogium (Historiarum sive Temporis), R.S. 9 III, p. 213.

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  12 Canon of Bridlington’s Chronicle (R.S. 76 II, p. 149), Galfridi le Baker, op. cit., p. 99.

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  13 Continuatio Chronicarum, R.S. 93, p. 406.

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  14 ‘Vitae Archiepiscoporum’, Anglia Sacra, Vol. 1, p. 42.

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  15 Originalia Roll, 24 Ed. III, m. 2., cit. Gasquet, p. 81.

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  16 Studies in Agrarian History, op. cit., p. 321.

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  17 Revue beige de Philologie et d’Histoire, XXVII, 1950, p. 600.

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  18 op. cit., pp. 86–9.

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  19 J. M. Fletcher, ‘The Black Death in Dorset’, Dorset Nat Hist. Ant. Field Club., Vol. XLIII, 1922, p. 1.

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  20 Hist. MSS. Comm., 6th Report, p. 475.

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  21 Wilkins, Concilia, ii, pp. 735–6.

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  22 Dr J. Lunn’s Ph. D. thesis of 1930. Most unfortunately no copy of this survives but many of its valuable statistics are quoted in Dr Coulton’s Mediaeval Panorama (pp.495–9 and notes).

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  23 Gasquet, op. cit., p. 96.

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  24 A. Hamilton Thompson, ‘Pestilences of the 14th Century in the Diocese of York’, Archaeological Journal, Vol. 71, 1914, pp. 98–100.

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  25 op. cit., p. 192.

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  26 op. cit., p. 230.

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  27 ‘Register of Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury’, Somerset Record Society, Vol. X, 1896, p. 596.

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  28 M. Baehrel, ‘Epedémie et Terreur: histoire et sociologie’, Annales historiquesdelaRévolution française,Vol. XXIII, 1951, pp. 113–46, and ‘La haine de classe en temps d’épidémie’, Annales, E.S.C., Vol. VII, No. 2, 1952, pp. 351–60.

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  29 Victoria County History (henceforth referred to as V.C.H.), Hampshire. Vol. II, p. 33. See p. 151 below.

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  30 The Sky Suspended, London, 1960, p. 168.

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  31 Knighton, op. cit., p. 61.

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  32 C. E. Boucher, ‘The Black Death in Bristol’, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. IX, 1938, p.36.

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  33 S. Seyer, Memoirs of Bristol, Bristol, 1823, Vol. II, p. 143.

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  34 A. Jenkins, History of the City of Exeter, Exeter, 1841, p. 62.

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  35 G. Oliver, History of the City of Exeter, Exeter 1861, p. 74.

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  36 W. G. Hoskins, Devon, London, 1954, p. 169.

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  37 Dr J. Lunn, Ph. D. thesis.

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  38 L. F. Salzmann, English Industries of the Middle Ages, London, 1913, p. 74; A. R. Bridbury, Economic Growth, London, 1962, p. 25.

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  1 ‘Lives of the Berkeleys’, ed. J. Smyth, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Gloucester, 1883, Vol. 1, p. 322.

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  2 Galfridi It Baker, op. cit., p. 99.

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  3 V.C.H. Gloucestershire, Vol. II, p. 19.

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  4 ‘Lives of the Berkeleys’, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 307.

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  5 A. Hamilton Thompson, ‘Register of John Gynewell, Bishop of Lincoln, for the Years 1347–50’, Archaeological Journal, Vol. 68, 1911, p. 323 and App. 3.

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  6 ‘Eynsham Cartulary’, ed. H. E. Salter, Oxford Historical Society, 1907–8, Vol. 2, p. 69.

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  7 M. Beresford, Lost Villages of England, London, 1954, p. 159.

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  8 ‘Eynsham Cartulary’, Vol. 2, p.69; cf. K. J. Allison and other members of the Deserted Mediaeval Village Research Group, The Deserted Villages of Oxfordshire, Leicester, 1965.

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  9 P. D. A. Harvey, A Mediaeval Oxfordshire Village: Cuxham, Oxford, 1965, p.64.

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  10 A. Wood, History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford, Oxford, 1792, Vol. 1, p. 449.

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  11 E. Brown, Fasciculus rerum expetendarum et fugiendarum, London, 1690, Vol. 2, p. 473.

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  12 Loci e libro veritatum, ed. J. E. T. Rogers, Oxford, 1881, p. 202.

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  13 De Ecclesia, ed. J. Loserth, London, 1886, p. 374.

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  14 H. E. Salter, Mediaeval Oxford, Oxford, 1936, p.108; cf. Hastings Rashdall, Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages (ed. Powicke and Emden), Oxford, 1936, Vol. 3, p. 317.

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  15 V.C.H. Berkshire, Vol. II, pp. 185–7.

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  16 Hamilton Thompson, op. cit., p. 322.

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  17 L. J. Ashford, History of the Borough of High Wycombe, London, 1960, p. 49.

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  18 V.C.H. Wiltshire, Vol. IV, p. 39.

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  19 Gasquet, op. cit., p. 130.

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  20 Reg. Edendon ii, fol. 17, ‘Mandatum ad
orandum pro Pestilentia’, cit. Gasquet, op. cit., p. 124.

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  21 V.C.H. Hampshire, Vol. II, pp. 32–3.

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  22 Dr J. Lunn, cit. Coulton, p. 496.

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  23 N. S. and E. C. Gras, The Economic and Social History of an EnglishVillage, Harvard, 1930, p. 153.

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  24 ibid., p. 76.

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  25 Gasquet, op. cit. pp. 216–18.

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  26 Originalia Roll 29, Ed. Ill m. 8., cit. Gasquet, p. 217.

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  27 British Mediaeval Population, op. cit., p. 285.

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  28 W. L. Woodland, The Story of Winchester, London, 1952, p. 114. V.C.H. Hampshire, Vol. II, p. 32.

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  29 H. C. M. Lambert, History of Banstead in Surrey, Oxford, 1931, p. 15.

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  30 E Robo, ‘The Black Death in the Hundred of Farnham’, Eng. Hist.Rev.,Vol. XLIV, 1929, p. 560.

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  1 J.C. Russell, British Mediaeval Population, op. cit., pp. 286–7.

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  2 I have made much use of E. L. Sabine’s three essays in Speculum: ‘Butchering in Mediaeval London’, Vol. VIII, 1933, p.335; ‘Latrines and Cess-pools of Mediaeval London’, Vol. IX, 1934, p. 303; and ‘City cleaning in Mediaeval London’, Vol. XII, 1937, p. 19, in preparing this chapter.

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  3 B. Lambert, History and Survey of London, London, 1806, Vol. 1, p. 241.

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  4 H. J. Riley, Memorials of London and London Life, London, 1868, p. 295.

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  5 ‘Historical MSS. belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury’, H. Mss. Comm., Second Report, p. 338.

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  6 Robert of Avesbury, R.S. 93, p. 407.

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  7 Greenwood, Epidemics and Crowd Diseases, op. cit., p. 291.

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  8 McKisack, The Fourteenth Century, Oxford, 1949, p. 220.

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  9 Dom. D. Knowles, The Religious Orders in England, Cambridge, 1955, Vol. II, pp.130-31. W. Hope, History of the London Charterhouse, London, 1925, p.8.

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  10 op. cit., p. 407.

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  11 Survey of London, Vol. II, p. 81.

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  12 Abstract of the Population Returns of 1831, London, 1832, p. 11.

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  13 C. H. Talbot and E. A. Hammond, The Medical Practitioner in Mediaeval England, London, 1965, p. 312.

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  14 Creighton, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 129.

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  15 Chronicon Johannis de Reading, ed. J. Tait, Manchester, 1914, p.108.

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  16 A. R. Stanley, Memorials of Westminster Abbey, London, 1868, pp. 376–7.

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  17 J. C. Russell, op. cit., p. 285.

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  18 Creighton, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 195.

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  19 Knighton, op. cit., p. 120.

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  20 John of Reading, op. cit., pp. 109–10.

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  1 V.C.H. Sussex, Vol. II, p. 77.

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  2 ibid., Vol. II, p. 54.

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  3 ibid., Vol. II, p. 182.

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  4 Willelmi de Dene, ‘Historia Rossensis’, Wharton, Anglia Sacra, Vol. I, pp. 375–6.

 

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