The Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9), Now Commonly Known as the Black DeathGasquet, Francis Aidan
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The Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9), Now Commonly Known as the Black Death
Gasquet, Francis Aidan
Black Death; Diseases and history; Medicine, Medieval
Boxgrove abbey, 115.
Brackley, state of country near, 193.
Braunsford, Wulstan, bishop of Worcester, 120.
Bread, white, unknown in the 14th century, 55.
Bredwardine, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, 109.
Bremen, 66.
Brenner-pass, the, 61.
Bridgwater, 84, 168.
Bridlington priory, Trivet's Chronicle continued at, 72.
Bridport, 79;
evidence of corporation records, 80.
Bristol, 84, 86, 116, 139;
date of plague at, 117;
new cemetery at, 87;
decay of, 86.
Bristol channel, contagion carried along the, 84, 89.
Broughton manor, 164.
Bruerne abbey, 191.
Bruton priory, cell of, 190.
Bubonic plague, the, 43.
Buckinghamshire, date of plague in, 102;
institutions of clergy in, 101-2, 178;
state of manors in, 100;
petition of sheriff as to, 178.
Bucklow manor, 145.
Burgundy, 46.
Burials, effected with difficulty, 40;
Christian idea of, 111.
Burton-on-Trent, district of, 148.
Business, cessation of all, 116.
Buyers, death of, 92, 146.
Cæsarea, 2.
Caffa, Genoese port in Crimea, 4.
Cairo, 2;
called Babylon, 4;
trade at, 4.
Calais, 49, 71, 117;
the taking of, i.
Caleston, manor of, 164.
Caldecot, manor of, 136.
Cambeth, now Cambay, India, 3.
Cambray, death of Bishop of Tournay at, 51.
Cambridge, date of plague at, 134;
parishes depopulated, 134, 135;
plague pits at, 134.
Cambridgeshire, county of, accounts of a manor in, 135;
state of, 132.
Camel, district about the river, 173.
Cantacuzene, the emperor, description of plague, 10, 11, 16.
Canterbury, diocese of, 102;
institutions of clergy in, 102, 179;
benefices in diocese, _ibid._;
city of, St. Augustine's, 103;
Christchurch, 103, 107, 179;
death of a St. Alban's monk at, 103;
prior of, orders prayers, 74;
St. Sepulchre's priory, 103;
St. Gregory's priory, 103;
St. James's priory, 179;
hospital of Eastbridge, 103.
Canterbury college, Oxford, origin of foundation of, 210.
Caramania, 2.
Carinthia, 61, 62.
Carlisle, 157, 158.
Carmarthen priory, 118.
Carmelites of Winchester diocese, the, 183.
Cartmel priory, 157.
Cary, Richard de, Mayor of Oxford, 127.
Caspar Camentz, on the plague at Frankfort, 66.
Castlecary, 84.
Catania, 13, 14;
flight of people to, 14;
death of Gerard Otho, the archbishop, 14.
Cattle left to wander in fields, 62, 139.
Cecchetti, signor, on medical faculty of Venice, 31.
Cemetery, difficulty as to, at Winchester, 110;
at Avignon, 40;
at Tournay, 53.
Cérisy, St. Vigor's abbey of, 185.
Charterhouse, London, old cemetery at, 94.
Charterhouse of Somerset, 170.
Chastiloun, John, sheriff of Bedford, etc., 179.
Chauliac, Gui de, 8, 43.
Chedworth, Sir Thomas, and Anglesey priory, 177.
Chedzoy manor rolls, 168.
Cheshunt, convent at, 177.
Chester, county of, 145;
accounts of County Palatine, 145;
archdeanery of, institution in, 145;
city, St. John's in, 145;
St. Mary's priory, 145.
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