[251] Walsingham, Gesta Abbatum. Rolls ed. II. 370. Abbot Michael, he says, “tactus est communi incommodo inter primos de suis monachis qui illo letali morbo percussi sunt.”
[252] Th. Stubbs’ Chronicle of York in Twysden, col. 1732.
[253] Chronicon Monasterii de Melsa, Rolls ed. III. 36.
[254] Rymer’s Foedera.
[255] Lowth, Life of William of Wykeham, p. 93, with a ref. to Regist. Edyngdon, pt. 1. fol. 49.
[256] Bentham, Hist. of Ely.
[257] Clyn.
[258] Jessopp, “The Black Death in East Anglia” in Nineteenth Century, April 1885, p. 602. The sources of these interesting particulars are not given.
[259] Peck’s Antiquarian Annals of Stamford, Bk. XI. p. 47.
[260] Hist. MSS. Commission’s Reports, IX. p. 127: “Hi quatuor tantum moriebantur de pestilencia.” The reporter on the MSS. of the Dean and Chapter conjectures that the monastery may have owed its comparative immunity to the fact that it was supplied with water brought by closed pipes from the hills on the north-east of the city.