[528] Ib. p. 124.
[529] V.C.H. Wilts. II, p. 77. The reference is perhaps to the famous storm of St Maur’s Day, 1362, which, together with the Black Death, is commemorated in a graffito in the church of Ashwell (Herts.) and in a distich quoted by Adam Murimuth
C ter erant mille, decies sex unus et ille.
Luce tua Maure, vehemens fuit impetus aurae.
Ecce flat hoc anno, Maurus in orbe tonans.
[530] Gray, op. cit. p. 79.
[531] Bishop Rede’s Reg. (Sussex Rec. Soc.), p. 137.
[532] Cal. of Papal Letters, V, p. 347.
[533] Dugdale, Mon. IV, p. 301.
[534] The following account of medieval plagues and famines is taken mainly from Creighton, Hist. of Epidemics in Britain, I, pp. 202-7, 215-223. See also Denton, England in the Fifteenth Century, pp. 91-105.
[535] Creighton, op. cit. I, p. 19.
[536] Denton, op. cit. p. 93.