[428] Walsingham, II. 276. The Chronicle of William Gregory (Camden Society, ed. Gairdner) enters under the year 1407, a great frost, for twenty-five weeks. It would be of real scientific interest to know the chronology exactly, whether the plague followed or preceded the long cold drought; but the year of the plague is disputable, if any heed be paid to the date of 1406, given by later compilers.
[429] Walsingham, II. 297. Otterbourne, under 1411, says plague in Gascony.
[430] Annals of Bermondsey, in Annales Monast. Rolls ed. III. 485.
[431] Rot. Parl. IV. 143 a. It is probably under 1420 that the “great plague” at Newcastle, given in so many words in Brand’s History under 1410, should be placed.
[432] Ibid. 148 b.
[433] Histor. Collec. of a Citizen of London, 15th cent. Camden Soc. ed. Gairdner, 1876:
“They dyde faster every day
Thenn men myght them in erthe lay.”
[434] History of Agriculture and Prices in England, IV. 105.
[435] Chronicle of Croyland, in Gale, I. 518; Rogers, IV. 233.
[436] Denton. London, 1886, p. 92.