Patent rolls, evidence of the mortality upon the, 76. Pater noster, meaning of instructions upon the, 208, _note_. Pembroke, county of, 118. Pentrich, 147. People, sympathy of clergy with, 214; become masters of the situation, 200. Pepys, Samuel, his description of Bristol, 86. Pestilence, the great, date of commencement, 1; its arrival in England, 73; character of, 7, 10, 11, 35, 49, 60, 62; special type of, 7, 36, 43, 117, 119; rapidity of infection of, 60, 74, 119; not affected by climate, 36. Petrarch, his account of the plague at Parma, 28-30. Pessimism of present day, 217. Pfäfers, 63. Philip of Valois, Queen of, dies, 47. Philip VI consults doctors upon the epidemic, 49. Piacenza, 4, 18-19. Pilton priory, 89. Pinchbeck, Emma de, prioress of Worthorp, 137. Pisa, 26; effect of plague on morals at, 32. Platiensis, Michael, his account of the plague in Sicily, 12. Poisoners suspected at Avignon, 41. Poitou, 46. Pola, 61. Pollesworth abbey, 125. Poole, 80. Poor, unhealthy condition of living, 126; very great mortality amongst, 36, 41. Population in 14th century, 54; statistics of, 75; estimate of, in England, 194, _seqq._; effect on the, 73, 143; proportion carried off, 194; detached from the soil by the plague, 201. Portesham, 79. Portishead, 84. Portland, 73. Portsmouth, 113, 186. Poverty of priests because of the deaths of their people, 135. Powick, 122. Pratis, John de, bishop of Tournay, 51. Preston, 156. Priests' deaths imply deaths of many people, 166. Priests, poverty of, through the plague, 105, 135-172. Priests afraid of infection, 105, 109; specially liable to infect, 18, 33, 36, 53, 68, 81, 119; dearth of, 81, 105, 172, 205; devotion of, 53, 88. Processions, orders for, 71-158. Provisions, cheap, during the pestilence, 92. Provence, 40, 44. Ragusa, 60. Raleghe, Roger de, Abbot of Hartland, 90. Ramsey abbey, 156. Realism, need of corrective for, 218. Reggio, 28. Registers, Episcopal, importance of the, 75. Regular clergy, numbers of the, 211; position in the Church of, 211; ordinations of, 211. Religion, paralysis of, after the epidemic, iv; history of, in later times, to be understood in light of this plague, vi. Religious foundations, change in type of, 212. Religious houses, special mortality in, 67, 141, 153, 163; effect of plague on numbers of, 180; impoverishment of, 117, 181, _seqq._ Religious, falling of in ordinations of, 183. Religious feeling and practice, important change in, iv. Rent, instance of remission of, 146. Rhine valley, 63, 66. Rhone valley, 37. Rich, the, victims of the plague at Tournay, 53; in Hungary, 64. Rievaulx abbey, 152. Rimini, 27. Rivarolo, 18. Roche abbey, 152. Rochester, diocese of, 104, _seqq._; deaths in episcopal palace of, 104; the bishop's mandate for prayers, 105; state of episcopal manors, 106.