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

by Francis Aidan Gasquet

[180] Wharton, Anglia Sacra, i, p. 42.

[181] J. E. Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, i, p. 221.

[182] Gesta Abbatum (Rolls series).

[183] Hist. MSS. Comm., Eighth Report, p. 336. Batteley's copy of this commission is in B. Mus. Add. MS., 22, 665, fol. 183.

[184] Escheator's Inq. p.m., 23 Edw. III., Kent.

[185] Some six miles from Rochester.

[186] Nine miles from Maidstone.

[187] Wharton, Anglia Sacra, i, pp. 375–6. This is an abstract of Dene's account in the Rochester cartulary, B. Mus. Cotton MS., Faust. B. v, ff. 96 et seqq. Cf. also Vitell. E. xiv, ff. 375 et seqq.

[188] B. Mus. Faust. B., v, f. 98.

[189] Ibid., fol. 99.