Mengham, Hayling Island, 187. Mentmore, Michael, abbot of St. Alban's, 97. Merdenchor, quarter of Tournay, 51. Messina, 12. Mesopotamia, 2; trade route through, 3. Middle ages, material difficulties in, 217. Middle classes, profusion of, v. Milan, building of the cathedral of, 219. Minster priory, Cornwall, 89. Momo, 62. Monasteries, special mortality in, 67, 180; impoverishment of, 177; depopulation of, 215. Monkbretton priory, 152. Monrieux, 29. Montgomery, Sir John, 116. Montpellier, 35. Morals, effect of scourge on, iv, 25, 32, 48; attempt to enforce better, 52. Mortality, extent of, in Europe, 50; probable estimate of, in England, 194, _seqq._; of English clergy, as evidenced by patent rolls, 76; greater in confined places, 53. Morton, 193. Muchelney abbey, 85. Muggington, 147. Muhldorf, 61. Muisis, Gilles Le, abbot of Tournay, 50, 59. Mussi, De', his account of the plague in Italy, 16, 17. Mustard, nearly the only mediæval condiment, 55. Mürz, the valley of the, 61. Nangis, William of, his account of the plague, 47. Narbonne, 37. Navarre, Queen of, dies, 47. Netherton, 145. Neuberg, 61, 65. Newcastle, 159. Newenham abbey, 90. Norfolk and Suffolk, institution of clergy in, 128; manors of, deaths in, 129. Normandy, 46, 49. Northam, 88. Northamptonshire, institutions of clergy in, 137; manors of, 138. North Sea, ships drifting on the, 2. Northumberland, 159. Northwich, 146. Northwood, Hayling Island, 187. Norway, 67. Norwich, diocese of, deaths of religious superiors in, 128; institutions of clergy in, 128; ordinations of youths in, 205. Norwich, city of, St. Martin's in the Fields, 129; the friars of Our Lady in, _ibid._; deaths in, 130; supposed population of, _ibid._ Nottinghamshire, deaths of beneficed clergy in, 148. Noves, Laura de, death of, 37. Nurses, impossibility of finding, 40, 44, 46, 63; almost certain death of, 49. Oath, a kind of missionary, imposed at Ely, 207. Observance of monasteries, plague fatal to, 216. Orders, dearth of candidates for, 152; the usual intervals between, dispensed with, 205; conferred on a married man, 207; conferred on youths, 205. Ordinations, effect of plague upon the, 181, 183, 208. Ordinations, faculty to archbishop of York for extra, 152. Orvieto, 27. Ospring manor, 104. Otho, Gerard, archbishop of Catania, 14. Oxfordshire, date of pestilence in, 125. Oxford City, 126; mayors die, 126; plague pits in, 127. Oxford University, students decrease through plague, 126, 210. Oxford, St. Frideswide, 125, 192. Padova, Andrea di, a doctor at Venice, 31. Padua, 26, 61. Painted glass, influence of plague on manufacture, 203. Paris, 46, 47. Parishes, depopulation of, 105, 142; impoverishment of, 136. Parliament, prorogation of, 93. Parma, 28-30. Pastoral clergy, necessity for providing, 214.