[537] Ib. p. 93 sqq.

[538] V.C.H. Hants. II, p. 150. He attributed their condition to negligence and bad administration.

[539] P.R.O. Ancient Correspondence, XXXVI, no. 201.

[540] V.C.H. Derby, II, p. 43. See below, p. [200].

[541] See P. G. Mode, The Influence of the Black Death on the English Monasteries (Univ. of Chicago, 1916), passim.

[542] Dugdale. Mon. IV, p. 268.

[543] A. Hamilton Thompson, Registers of John Gynewell, Bishop of Lincoln for the years 1347-1350 (reprinted from Archaeol. Journ. LXVIII, pp. 301-360, 1912), p. 328.

[544] Ib. pp. 359-60.

[545] A. Hamilton Thompson, The Pestilences of the Fourteenth Century in the Diocese of York (reprinted from Archaeol. Journ. LXXI, pp. 97-154, 1914), pp. 121-2.

[546] Wharton, Anglia Sacra, I, pp. 364, 375.