Asia, epidemic in, 2; trade route to Europe from, 2; hordes of Tartars in, 3. Athelney abbey, 85. Atte Welle, John, 136. Augustinians of Winchester diocese, 183. Austria, 61. Avesbury, Robert of, his account of the pestilence, 74. Avignon, first reports of plague at, 16; account of plague at, 37-45, 51, 119; date of epidemic at, 43; extent of mortality in, 42; decrease of population in, 41; new cemeteries at, 38. Azarius, Peter, notary of Novara, 62. Azor, otherwise Tana, 5. Babington, translator of Hecker's _Epidemics_, 2. Babington, Somerset, 85. Babylon, mediæval name for Cairo, 4. Bagdad, the centre of Eastern commerce, 3. Baker, Galfrid le, 72, 116. Balearic islands, the, 58. Barcelona, 58. Barlings abbey, 192. Barlborough, 147. Barnstaple, 89. Barnwell, John, prior of, 132. Basingstoke, deanery of, 113. Basle, 64, 66. Bateman, bishop of Norwich, 205. Bath, 85. Bath priory, decrease in numbers at, 85. Bathampton, 85. Bath and Wells, diocese of, prayers ordered in, 71; date of pestilence in, 80, 83; letter of bishop of, 81; straits for priests in, 207; ordinations in, 212. Baths, public, common in the 14th century, 56. Battle abbey, 115. Bavaria, 61. Beauchief abbey, 147. Beche, Margaret de la, Inq. p.m. on, 191. Bedfordshire, state of manors in, 101; institutions in, 178; petition of sheriff as to state of, 178. Beds in French peasant houses, 56. Belgium, 49. Bellinzona, 62. Beneficed and non-beneficed clergy, proportion of, 134, 155, 175, _note_, 204, _note_. Bergen, 67. Berkshire, state of manors in, 101; institutions of clergy in, 178. Berne, 63. Bincombe, 78, 79. Bircheston, abbot of Westminster, 97. Biknor, Alexander de, archbishop of Dublin, 119. Blackburn, deanery of, 155. Black Death, the, recent origin of name, 6; symptoms of the disease, 7, 10, 119; special nature of, 8, 39, 43, 49; modern outbreak of, 9, _note_; truce between England and France attributed to, 117; inflicted a deadly blow on social body, iii.; forms end of mediæval period, iii.; catastrophe to church, iii.; starting point of modern history, vi. Blackmere, manor of, 143. Black Prince, Cornish estates of, 174; remits rents on, _ibid._ Black Sea, port of, the centres of infection, 1. Blandford, 78. Blessed Sacrament, increase of devotion to, v.; lamp to burn before, 130. Blisworth, manor of, 138. Blood-spitting, a characteristic symptom, 8, 27, 39, 43. Bobbio, 18. Boccaccio, his description of the plague, 16, 29, _seqq._ Bodmin, 89; numbers of deaths in, 90. Bodmin priory, 90; destitution of, 91. Bohemia, 65. Bohemian students, account of journey of, 32. Bologna, journey from, 32. Bolsover, 147. Bongar's _Gesta Dei per Francos_, 3. Bordeaux, 45. Botereaux, Isabel de, 141. Botzen, 61. Bourton tything, 167. Bowes, Agnes, prioress of Worthorp, 137.