+---------------------------+ | 1349. | +------+------+------+------+ |April.| May. | June.| July.| +------+------+------+------+ | 23 | 74 | 139 | 209 | +------+------+------+------+ [231] _Ibid._, p. 200. [232] _Ibid._, p. 203. [233] Blomefield, _History of Norfolk_ (folio ed.), ii, p. 681. [234] F. Seebohm, _The Black Death and its place in English History_ (in _Fortnightly Review_, Sept. 1st, 1865). [235] Fuller, _Worthies_, ed. Nicholas, ii, p. 132. [236] Ed. Nasmith, p. 344. [237] Professor Seebohm thinks that Yarmouth had probably a population of 10,000 before 1349. This seems much too low. It had 220 ships. [238] R. O., Rot. Claus., 26 Ed. III., m. 5d. This is repeated on two occasions in the next year. [239] B. Mus. Cole MS., 5,824, fol. 73. Extracts from Reg. Lisle. [240] _Ibid._, fol. 76. [241] The following table will give the number for some months:— +------------------------------------------------+ | 1349. | +------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ |April.| May. |June. |July. | Aug. |Sept. | Oct. | +------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ | 6 | 8 | 19 | 25 | 13 | 6 | 7 | +------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ The total number of benefices in the diocese at this time was 142. [242] Cole MS., _ubi supra_. [243] Bentham, _History of the Cathedral Church of Ely_, i, p. 161, has the following note: Register L'Isle, fol. 17-21. Hinc obiter notandum duxi, numerum clericorum parochialium in tota Diocesi Elien. hoc tempore fuisse 145, aut circiter; ex hoc autem numero, constat ex Registro 92 Institutiones fuisse infra annum 1349 (anno incipiente 25 die Martii). [244] Clerical Subsidy, 21/1. [245] _Six Centuries of Work and Wages_, i, p. 223. [246] _Hist. MSS. Comm., Sixth Report_, p. 299. This document is dated 27th May, 1366, and consequently may refer also to the effects of the plague of 1361. [247] R. O., Duchy of Lancaster, Mins. Accts., Bundle 288, No. 471. [248] It was this church which some years later was declared to be in a ruinous state. [249] Cole MS., 5824, fol. 81. [250] R. O., Originalia Roll, 23 Ed. III., m. 6. Among the Ministers' Accounts (Q. R., Mins. Accts., General Series, 874, No. 9) is a set belonging to a Ramsey manor at this time. "Many holdings of natives" are said to be in hand "on account of the pestilence," and in one place "22 virgates of land" for the same reason. [251] R. O., Chancery Inq. p. m., 23 Ed. III., No. 88. [252] The following table will show the number of Institutions in Northamptonshire for some months; before May and after October, 1349, some 34 institutions are recorded:—