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Dates

24th year of Edward III

Edward III's regnal year from January 25, 1350, to January 24, 1351.

1350 CE

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household

William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

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Anno xxiv. regni Regis Edwardi III. per totum illum annum Episcopus Roffensis senex & decrepitus apud Trottisclyve morabatur, languens & dolens de subitâ mutatione saeculi; quia in omnibus Maneriis Episcopatûs aedificia & clausurae corruebant, & vix Maneria illo anno de centum libris respondebant.

In the twenty-fourth year of King Edward III's reign, the Bishop of Rochester, old and frail, stayed at Trottisclyve all year. He was weak and grieving over how suddenly the world had changed. On every manor of the bishopric the buildings and fences were falling down, and that year the manors barely brought in a hundred pounds.