[133] _Hist. MSS. Comm., Sixth Report_, p. 475. [134] _History of Dorset_, i, p. 5. [135] _Curates_ here and elsewhere is used for Rectors or Vicars, who had the actual cure of souls. [136] Wilkins, _Concilia_, ii, pp. 735-6. [137] The following is a table of the institutions in Somersetshire for some months:— +--------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | 1348. | 1349. | +------+-------+-------+-------+--------+--------+-------+-------+ | Nov. | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | March. | April. | May. | June. | +------+-------+-------+-------+--------+--------+-------+-------+ | 9 | 32 | 47 | 43 | 36 | 40 | 21 | 7 | +------+-------+-------+-------+--------+--------+-------+-------+ [138] Bath Chartulary (Lincoln's Inn MS.), p. 119. This is now being edited for the _Somerset Record Society_, and the list is given at p. 73 of Mr. Hunt's edition. [139] R. O. Clerical Subsidy (Somerset), 4/2. [140] See list given in _Deputy Keeper's Report_, vii, p. 280. [141] W. Hunt, _Historic Towns_, _Bristol_, p. 77. [142] S. Seyer, _Memoirs of Bristol_ (Bristol, 1823) ii, p. 143. [143] Rot. Pat., 23 Ed. III., pars 3, m. 4. [144] For information about the institutions of this diocese and other matters concerning Devon and Cornwall, I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. Prebendary Hingeston-Randolph. [145] Curiously enough the number of institutions in 1891 was 36. [146] The following table will give the number of institutions in Devon and Cornwall in each month:— +-----------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | 1348. | 1349. | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-------+-----+------+------+-----+-----+ |Nov. |Dec. |Jan. |Feb. |Mar. |April. |May. |June. |July. |Aug. |Sept.| +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-------+-----+------+------+-----+-----+ | 10 | 6 | 30 | 34 | 60 | 53 | 47 | 45 | 37 | 16 | 23 | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-------+-----+------+------+-----+-----+ [147] The Prior of St. James', Exeter, also died: "postea tempore pestilencie subito mortuus est." (Reg. Grand., i, fol. 27b). [148] Rot. Pat., 29 Ed. III., pars 2, m. 19. [149] B. Mus., Arund. MS. 17, fol. 55b. Oliver (_Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis_, p. 359) adds: "And no fewer than 88 persons living within the Abbey gates." In Noakes' _History of the Monastery and Cathedral of Worcester_, p. 94, it is said that the virulence of the plague of 1349 may be judged "from the fact that in the Abbey of Newenham, in the West of England, out of a hundred and eleven inmates, only the Abbot and two monks survived." No authority is cited by these writers. [150] Reg. Grandisson, i, 26b. [151] _Itinerarum_, ed. J. Nasmith, p. 112. [152] Sir J. Maclean, _Deanery of Trigg Minor_, i, p. 128. [153] Reg. Grandisson, i, 26b. [p092] CHAPTER VI.