[447] Johannes Amundesham (of St Albans), Annales. Rolls ed. II. 127.
[448] Rot. Parl. V. 31 b.
[449] This is the only plague in the first half of the fifteenth century that Anthony Wood records; but he says, under the year 1500, that “no less than about thirty pests, both great and small, happened in this last century”—i.e. in the University of Oxford. I shall speak of their general effects in another chapter.
[450] Paston Letters. Ed. Gairdner, 1872, I. 302-3.
[451] Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles. Ed. Gairdner, for the Camden Society, 1880, from the Lambeth MSS., p. 163.
[452] Sir J. Paston to John Paston, 30 April, 1465. Another letter, of 18th August, has: “For the pestilence is so fervent in Norwych, that they dare no longer abyde there, so God help!” (Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner, II. 226), which probably refers to 1465 also. It is not mentioned by Blomefield.
[453] Chronicle of Croyland, in Gale, I. 541.
[454] Communicated to me by the Rev. W. Hunt, from a new volume of the Camden Society, edited by A. F. Leach, Visitations and Memorials of Southwell Minster, p. 11.
[455] Tickell, History of Kingston upon Hull, 1798.
[456] Warkworth’s Chronicle. Camden Society, p. 23 (under the year 13 Ed. IV.).