[547] With reference to a pestilence at Oxford in 1448, Wood says: “occasioned, as ’twas thought, by the overflowing of waters, and the want of a quick passage for them from the ground. Also by the lying of many scholars in one room or dormitory in almost every Hall, which occasioned nasty air and smells, and consequently diseases.” Op. cit. I. 596.
[548] Materials Illustrative of the Reign of Henry VII. Rolls ser. 60, II. p. 136.
[549] Chronicle of England, sub anno.
[550] Hist. Angl., p. 609 (Basil, 1546).
[551] Stow, Annales.
[552] In Rymer’s Foedera all these vacancies of bishoprics are entered under the year 1501, beginning with the see of Canterbury (Morton’s) on 9th January, 1501.
[553] Plumpton Correspondence, Camden Soc. No. 4, p. 138: Letter of ? 1499, R. Leventhorpe, of Leventhorpe Hall, Yorkshire, to Sir R. Plumpton: “And sithe I hard say that a servant of yours was decesed of the sicknes, which hath bene to your disease, I am right sorry therefore;” he advises fasting, and trusts “ye sal be no more vexed with that sicknes.” In the next letter (cviii) to Sir R. Plumpton from his son:—“Also, sir, I am very sorry that the death seaseth not at Plompton.”
[554] Hardwicke Papers, London, 1778, I. 2 (from Harl. MSS.).
[555] Freeman, Exeter, in “English Towns” series, p. 99.
[556] Annales Henrici VII. Rolls series, p. 88.