[383] Mr. Baigent's MS. extracts from the Episcopal Registers. It is of interest to note that in normal times very few were ordained after their appointment as incumbents. Thus, to take the churches in the city of Winchester, besides this period and 1361, when again the mortality among the clergy was very great, only some 8 or 9 were so ordained between 1349 and 1361, as the following table will show:—
| 1346 | 1348 | 1349 | 1350 | 1351 | 1352 |
| 1 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 1 |
| 1354 | 1359 | 1361 | 1362 | 1363 | |
| 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
[384] Harl. MS., 6965, fol. 145 (7 Id. Julii, 1349).
[385] Ibid., fol. 146b.
[386] B. Mus. Cole MS., 5824, fol. 23b.
[387] For the real meaning to be attached to learning the Pater noster, etc., see my article on Religious Instruction in England in the 14th and 15th Centuries, in Dublin Review, Oct., 1893, p. 900.
[388] Mr. Baigent's MS. collections.
[389] From 1400 to 1418 the average was 17, from 1447 to 1467 only 18.
[390] Reg. Trileck, fol. 180 seqq.
[391] Reg. Trileck, fol. 163.