Labourers, difficulty of obtaining, 50, 92, 106, 140, 170-1, 179, 189; trouble with, 56; feel their power, iii, 197; get higher wages in spite of legislation, 198-9. Lagerbring, on plague in Norway, 67. Lamech, earthquake at, 2. Lancashire, 155. Land, depreciation of, 137, 153, 188, 189, 192, 196; rents of, reduced, 106, 143-4, 145, 164, _seqq._; cessation of services on, 148; a third part of, uncultivated, 199; change of, to large tenures, 201. Landowners, difficulties of, 196; mediæval meaning of, 202. Langton, 79. Language, effect of plague on, 202. Languedoc, 37. Langwith, 147. Lanthony priory, 189. Laon, abbey of St. John at, 56. Launceston, appointment of a religious of, as prior of Bodmin, 91. Laura de Noves, death of, 37; announcement of death of, to Petrarch, 29. Law Courts suspended, 149. Law suits settled by deaths of parties, 116, 169. Lay people and clergy, proportion of, 205. Ledbury, large ordination at, 209. Leicester, county of, institutions of clergy in, 140. Leicester, city of, 139. Lesnes monastery, poverty of, 106. Lestraunge, John, 144, 164. Lewes priory, deaths at, 115. Liège, labour difficulties at, 56. Lincoln, diocese of, indulgences for, 139, 149; institutions of clergy in, 177. Lincoln, county of, Escheator's accounts for, 150. Lincoln, Richard de, 149. Lipton, Nicholas de, abbot, 192. Lisle, Thomas de, Bishop of Ely, 132. Livings left vacant, 172. Lollards, supposed religious revival, due to, iv. London, date of plague in, 93, 96, 117; new churchyards in, 23-94; number of dead in, 94-95, 175; insanitary condition of, 95; proportion of secular to regular clergy ordained in, 213, _note_. Longford, 147, 176. Louth Park, 149. Luce, M. Simeon, on condition of French rural life, 56. Lucerne, 63. Lucaris, Dominic de, Archbishop of Spalatro, 60. Luda, Walter de, abbot of Louth Park, 149. Luffield priory, 137. Lulworth, East, 79. Lycia, trade route with, 3. Lycotin, Matilda, 114. Lydford manor, 172. Lyle, Henry de, prior of Horsleigh, 190. Lynot, John, 135. Lynsted, Adam de, sacrist of Ely, 133. Magnus II, King of Sweden, 69. Mahabar, probably Mahe, on Malabar coast, 3. Majorca, 58. Maldon manor, 175. Male population, demands upon the, 210. Malling abbey, 104, 106. Malvern, Great, 122. Manny, Sir Walter, 94, 116. Manors, example of deaths of tenants on, 129, 135, 138, 139, 141, 167, 168, 169. Marino, Sanudo, his account of ancient trade routes, 2. Marseilles, 34; remains a city of the dead, 40. Marton priory, 152. Mautravers, John, governor of Channel Islands, 71. Meals, account of, in France, 56. Meath, bishop of, 119, _note_. Meaux abbey, 78, 152; decay of, 154. Medical science powerless to deal with epidemic, 10, 36, 44, 63. Mediterranean ports, infection brought from, 1. Melcombe Regis, plague in England first starts from, 72.