[218] Green (_Worcester_, p. 144) speaks of the measures taken by the Bishop for the public safety as relieving the city "from an alarming evil," and by it the parishes of St. Alban, St. Helen, St. Swithun, St. Martin, St. Nicholas, and All Saints, "whose churchyards were very confined and not equal to the reception of the parochial deceased, were permitted to partake of the same advantages of sepulture. . . . Hence St. Oswald's burial ground has accumulated that prodigious assemblage of tumulation which, at this time, cannot be viewed with indifference by the most cursory beholder." [219] Dated October 26th, 1352. [220] R. O., L. T. R. Memoranda Roll, 26 Ed. III. [221] _Ibid._, 28 Ed. III., Mich. term, m. 19. [222] The following table gives the number of Institutions in some months:— +------------------------------------------------+ |April.| May. |June. |July. | Aug. |Sept. | Oct. | +------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ | 4 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 10 | +------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ [223] Dugdale, _Warwickshire_, (ed. Thomas), p. 147. [224] Wood, _History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford_ (ed. Gutch), p. 449. [225] Harl. MS., 1900, fol. 2. Trevisa's translation of FitzRalph's _Propositio coram Papa_: "So yt in my tyme, in ye University of Oxenford were thrilty thousand scolers at ones, and now beth unneth six thousand." [226] Gascoigne, _Loci ex Libro Veritatum_, ed. J. E. Thorold Rogers, p. 202. The editor on the passage says: "They (_i.e._ the students) come from all parts of Europe. The number seems incredible, but Oxfordshire was, to judge from its rating for exceptional taxation, after Norfolk, then at the best of its industries, the wealthiest county in England by a considerable proportion. . . . This concourse of students was diverted by the great plague. . . . I see no reason to doubt the statement about the exceeding populousness of Oxford in the first half of the 14th century." [227] R. O., L. T. R. Memoranda Roll, 23 Ed. III., Mich. [228] _Six Centuries of Work and Wages_, i, p. 223. [p128] CHAPTER VIII. STORY OF THE DISEASE IN THE REST OF ENGLAND.