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422  
TNA E 42/447; CHW,Vol. 2, 90.
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CCR, 1422–27, 211; TNA SC 6/917/16.
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At 95 per cent confidence rating. The cemetery went out of use in 1539 so the burial dates to between 1402 and 1539.
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Gilchrist and Sloane 2005, Chapter 8.
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Bolton 1996, 27; Naphy and Spicer 2004, 34.
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Megson 1998, 133.
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CHW,Vol. 1, 608.
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Horrox 1994, 88; Gransden 1957, 277.
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Exceptions are Bridbury 1973, 584; Röhrkasten 2001.
431  
Cohn 2003, 197; Giles 1845, 173.
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Fitch 1979.
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Röhrkasten 2001, 196, implying approximately 10 per cent mortality during the plague.
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CHW,Vol. 2, 109, 115, 131; Fitch 1979, 398, 424.
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Ormrod 1996, 150.
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CAN, nos 538–44.
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CLB G, 226.
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CLB G, 228.
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CLB G, 230.
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CLB G, 229. I thank Dr Claire Martin for the explanation of this type of guardianship.
441  
CPR, Ed III, Vol. 14, 272.
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CHW, Vol. 2, 117, 122; Fitch 1979, 178.
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CAD, Vol. 2, A 1927.
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Duncan nd, book 25.
445  
CPMR, Vol. 2, A13, 84–95.
446  
CHW, Vol. 2, 112, 129.
447  
Röhrkasten 2001, 192.
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CHW, Vol. 2, 125, transcribed by Dr Jeremy Ashbee.
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CHW, Vol. 2, 120; CPMR, A14, m2.
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Davis 1993, 56; BL MS Nero E vi, fo 4d.
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Horrox 1994, 88.
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Röhrkasten 2001, 198.
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CHW, Vol. 2, 171, 173, 187.
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Röhrkasten 2001, 198.
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CHW, Vol. 2, 174.
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CPMR, Vol. 2, A21, m5.
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Röhrkasten 2001, 198.
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CHW, Vol. 2, 175, 181.
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John de Norwich does not appear in lists of masters of the hospital in the Victoria County History, or as updated by Barron and Davies. He first appears in 1354 when his estate was ratified by the king (CPR, Ed III, Vol. 10, 74), so he must have replaced William Weston in 1352 or 1353, and his successor was recognised in 1376 (CAD,Vol. 2, A 2334); therefore, he ran the hospital for over twenty-two years.
460  
CPR, Ed III, Vol. 16, 159.
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Horrox 1994, 120.
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CPMR, Vol. 2, 199.
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CHW, Vol. 2, 225; Harvey 1993, 76.v.
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Röhrkasten 2001, 199–200.
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Riley 1868, 384.
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Röhrkasten 2001, 199–200.
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1377 London and Middlesex Poll Tax: Fenwick 2001 (pt 2), 61–2; Southwark: Carlin 1996, 142–3; Westminster: Rosser 1989, 162; adult population estimates for London: Russell 1948, 285–7.
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Nightingale 1995, 239.
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Hanawalt 2007, 27–8; Carlin 1996, 139; Megson 1996, 25; Gottfried 1980, 9; Goldberg 1990, 212–3.
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Nightingale 1995, 208.
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Holt 1987, 205–6.
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Dunn 2003, 33.
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Gooder 1998, 40–3;VCH Oxford 4, 3–73.
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Martin 1996, 105.
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Keene 1990, 30–8.
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O’Connor 1993, 63, 101–2; Schofield 1995, 55; Carlin 1996, 46–7; Rosser 1989, 68–73.
477  
Ormrod 1996; Braid in prep; Haddock and Kielsing 2002.
478  
Riley 1861, 4.
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Riley 1861, 29.
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Cohn 2002, 38–9; Thrupp 1996, 201–6.
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Hovland 2006, 174.
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Hovland 2006, 81: the sums rose again to 6
s
6
d
in 1418.
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Hovland 2006, 51, 136.
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Braid in prep.
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Hovland 2006, 229, 239.
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Badham 2000, 232.
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Blackmore and Pearce 2010, 20.
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Riley 1868, 267; CLBF, 241.
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Horrox 1994, 131–4.
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Riley 1868, 319; Ipswich had one: Twiss 1873, 164–5.
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CLBF, 208; CHW, Vol. 2, 114.
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CLBG, 78, 169, 192, 295; Riley 1861, 508.
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Rushton 2002.
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See Chapter 3.
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For London dormitories, see, for example, Schofield and Lea 2005, 125; Sloane and Malcolm 2004, 92; for hospital and infirmary halls, see, for example, Orme and Webster 1995, 90–1; Prescott 1992, 38–41.
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Miller and Saxby 2007, 86–7, 126; Harvey and Oeppen 2001, 222.
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Harvey and Oeppen 2001, 227–30, 233.
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Weetman 2004, 143, 146, 173, chart 4c; CHW, Vol. 2, 18, 39, 106.
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CCRC, 61.
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Thompson 1965, 186.
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Barron 1985; Weetman 2004, 171.
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Calculated from an analysis of the Husting wills by the author.
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Barron 1985, 25.
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CHW, Vol. 1, 482, 637; Vol. 2, 106, 147, 218.
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Riley 1868, 230, 365, 384, 388.
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Rawcliffe 2006, 282–3.
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Rawcliffe 2006, 109.
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Rawcliffe 2006, 13–47.
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Carlin 1996, 103–4.
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CLB K, 124–6; CCR 40–270.
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Thompson 1965, 185.
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CHW, Vol. 2, 283.
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CHW, Vols 1 and 2; this cannot take account of the missing roll for 1360.
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Weetman 2004, 232.
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Harding 1992, 126.
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CHW, Vol. 2, 187.
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Wood-Legh 1932, 50; Kreider 1979, 72; Rousseau 2003, 27–30; Boldrick 1997, 26.
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Weetman 2004, 89–104; CHW, Vol. 1, 665.
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Gilchrist and Sloane 2005, 94; Gilchrist 2008.
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There are a number of works which summarise the debates, including Theilmann and Cate, 2007, and especially Nutton 2008.
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Benedictow 2004, Chapter 3: a flea biting an infected rat develops a plug of multiplying bacteria blocking its stomach. Starving, it regurgitates parts of the bacterial block as it tries to feed, introducing the disease into the bloodstream of its host. As starving fleas transfer to new rat hosts, the colony suffers an epizootic. As the rats die, the fleas are forced to attack new hosts including humans, introducing the plague to them.

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