China, origin of plague in, 1, 2; trade routes from, 3. Christchurch priory, Hants, effect of mortality on, 184. Christian charity destroyed by plague, 13, 20, 39, 38, 44, 46, 63, 119. Church, effects of plague on the, iv, 205, _seqq._; benefits to, from middle classes, v. Churches left without services, 205-6. Chus or Koos, trade routes through, 4. Cities, depopulation of, 161. Clement VI, pope, 44. Clergy, reason for calculating mortality of, 75; poor pay of, 206; proportion to lay people, 205-6; ignorance of some at this time, 207; secular and regular, proportion of, 211; mortality amongst, 77, 203-4; dearth of, 152, 172, 205, 214; regulation of fees of, 105; demand higher stipends, 206. Clerics not in sacred orders appointed to benefices, 206. Clevedon, 84. Clistel, the lord of, 117. Cloford, 85. Clopton, Thomas de, 118. Clyn, friar John, account of plague in Ireland, 119-120. Co, John de, chancellor of Ely diocese, 133. Colchester, numbers of wills at, 176; abbot of, dies, 176. Colington, Great, 142. Colington, Little, 142. Collegiate establishment rendered necessary, 212. Colmar, 66. Cologne, 66. Combe Kaynes, 79. Commerce, routes of eastern, in 14th century, 2. Compostella, account of a pilgrim to, 59. Compton, 85. Confession to laymen, people exhorted to make, 81. Constance, 64. Constantinople, position in regard to Crimean trade, 9; plague at, 10. Contagion, special nature of, 36, 39, 40, 44. Conventional forms of middle ages, 218. Conversation with infected fatal, 42, 44. Corbet, John, priest of Winchester, 208. Corey, John, establishes a cemetery in London, 93. Cork, 120. Cornard Parva, manor of, 129. Cornwall, evidence of Duchy accounts, 173; date of plague in the county of, 80. Cornwall, Mr., introduces English in schools, 202. Corsica, 58. Court rolls, information contained in, 130, 166. Country, desolation of, 162, _seqq._ Coventry, 125. Covino, Simon de, poem on the plague, 35. Crecy, battle of, i. Creighton, Dr., his work on epidemics in Britain, ii. Crimea, Italian trading cities in, 3, 4. Crokham manor, 101. Crops, prolific nature of, at time of plague, 140. Crosby, 155. Croxton abbey, 140. Cumberland, 157. Cunningham, Dr., on the population of England, 195; on effect of the plague, 216. Curates, technical meaning of name, 81, _note_. Cyprus, 2. Dale abbey, 147. Dalkey, 119. Dallyng, Philip, sacrist of Ely, 133. Dalmatia, 60. Dartmoor, 172. Deacons, faculties given to, for administering H. Eucharist, 83. Death of those attacked by disease considered certain, 38, 43. Decameron, description of the plague in the, 16, 20-24. Dene, William, monk of Rochester, his description of the plague, 104, _seqq._, 197; account of the labour difficulties by, 199. Dene, Roger, priest of Winchester, 207. Dene, Sir Thomas, deaths in the family of, 104.