[409] Memorials of London, etc. from the Council Records. Edited by H. T. Riley. Lond. 1867, p. 339 and p. 356.
[410] Walsingham, Hist. Angl. I. 319; Adam of Murimuth.
[411] The chroniclers are not agreed as to the chronology of the various 14th century plagues from the first (the Black Death) to the fifth. Some of the enumerations are clearly erroneous. Thus in A Short English Chronicle from the Lambeth MS. (ed. Gairdner for the Camden Society, 1880), the plague of 1361 is erroneously called “the threde pestilence,” while the fourth is assigned to 1369 and the fifth to 1377 (for 1375). Otterbourne places the quarta in 1374 (for 1375), and the quinta (as others do) in 1391; but in the Life of Richard II., by a monk of Evesham, the pestilence of 1382 is more correctly reckoned the fifth from the Black Death.
[412] Walsingham, Hist. Angl. I. 409. Chronicon Angliae, p. 239.
[413] Rot. Parl. IV. 806.
[414] Ibid. III. pp. 139 a, 147 a.
[415] Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, III. p. 111.
[416] Continuator of Higden, IX. 14.
[417] Political Songs and Poems. Rolls series, No. 14, I. p. 252:—
“The rysyng of the comuynes in londe,
The pestilens, and the eorthe-quake—
Theose three thinges I understonde.”