[393] In the diocese of London, in the twelve years, from 1362 to 1374, Bishop Sudbury ordained 1,046 seculars and 456 regulars, the proportion consequently being about 2·3 to 1. In the last twenty years of the century, namely, from 1381 to 1401, Bishop Braybroke ordained to the priesthood only 584 seculars, whilst the regulars were 425 during the same period. In other words, during the first period, the average annual number of ordinations to the ranks of the secular clergy in the diocese of London was over 87; during the last twenty years of the century it was only 29·2. The averages of the regulars in the corresponding periods were 35 and 21·2. Similar results appear from the York registers. [394] Archbp. Islip at this time (1350) says: "Dum ad memoriam reducimus admirandam pestilentiam que nuper partes istas subito sic invasit, ut nobis multo meliores et digniores subtraxerat." [395] _Annales Minorum_, viii, p. 22. [396] _Growth of English Industry and Commerce_, p. 275. [397] The _Annali della fabbrica_, published by the Cathedral administration, show in the minutest detail the organisation by which the necessary funds were raised, and enable us to see how it was popular enterprise by which so noble an undertaking was achieved. We can now realise the weekly collections made by willing citizens from door to door, the collections in the churches, the monthly sales of offerings in kind of the most varied nature, jewels, dresses, linen, pots and pans, divers articles of dress and domestic use. Every one, rich and poor alike, felt impelled to join in some way in the work which, as the words of the originators express it, "_was begun by Divine inspiration to the honour of Jesus Christ and His most Spotless Mother_." _Cf._ an article by Mr. Edmund Bishop on the subject in the _Downside Review_, July, 1893. THE END. INDEX. Abergavenny priory, 118. Abbotsbury abbey, 78, 163. Abstinence days, dispensation from, 197. Aden, trade route to, 3. Adriatic, coast towns of, 60. Agatha, St., relics at Catania, 13. Ages of Faith, meaning of, 218. Agrarian difficulties, 56, 148, 164, _seqq._ Albans, St., _see_ St. Albans. Alcester, Inq. p.m. at, 190. Aldgate, Holy Trinity, cemetery at, 93. Aleppo, 2. Alexandria and trade with Europe, 3. Allott, Thomas, 155. Almeira, 58. Almsford, 84. Alnwick abbey, 160. Alphonsus XI, death of, 59. Alverdiscott, 88. Amiens, 49. Amounderness, deanery of, 156. Andronicus (son of the Emperor Cantacuzene), death of, 12. Anglada, on nature of the plague, 8. Anglia, East, plague in, 129; effect on religious houses of, 129. Anglesey priory, Cambridge, 177. Animals attacked, 11, 38, 139. Antioch, patriarch of, archbishop of Catania, 13. Aragon, Queen of, dies, 59. Architecture, influence of pestilence on, 202. Arles, 37. Armenia, 2. Arras, decay of, 57. Arundel college, 212.