The Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9), Now Commonly Known as the Black Death

by Francis Aidan Gasquet

[122] B. Mus., Harl. MS. 6965, f. 132.

[123] Chronicon Galfridi le Baker, ed. E. M. Thompson, p. 98.

[124] Eulogium Historiarum (ed. Rolls series), iii, p. 213. It seems not at all improbable that this account was written whilst the plague was still confined to the west of England.

[125] Harl. MS. 688, f. 361.

[126] Hutchins, History of Dorset (3rd ed.), ii, p. 422.

[127] Rot. Pat., 26 Ed. III., pars 3, m. 5.

[128] Historical Manuscripts Commission, Eighth Report, App., p. 338.

[129] De Gestis Edwardi III. (ed. Rolls series), p. 406.

[130] As will be seen subsequently, this estimate of Dr. Jessopp is certainly too low, and it is probably more correct to suppose that the non-beneficed clergy, including under that head the religious, were four times as numerous as those holding benefices.

[131] The following table will show the actual number of institutions in Dorsetshire for some months:—