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Toto hoc tempore Episcopus Roffensis moram fecit apud Hallynges & Trottisclive, sollicitus de mirabilibus mundi; & Ordines celebravit in utroque loco certis interstitiis temporum.

All this time the Bishop of Rochester stayed at Hallynges and Trottisclive, anxious about the strange things happening in the world. In both places he held ordinations [of clergy] at the appointed seasons.

Episcopus Roffensis de modicâ familiâ suâ iv. Sacerdotes, v. Scutiferos, x. homines de ministerio, vii. Clericos juvenes, & vi. pagetos perdidit; & sic non remansit in aliquo officio qui sibi serviret.

From his small household the Bishop of Rochester lost four priests, five squires, ten servants, seven young clerks, and six pages. So there was no one left in any post to serve him.

In hac pestilentiâ plures Capellani & stipendiarii Curati noluerunt sine excessivo salario deservire. Hos Episcopus Roffensis dato ad Archidiaconum Roff. mandato anno MCCCXLIX. die xxvii. Junii, sub poenâ suspensionis & interdicti jussit eisdem stipendiis deservire.

During this pestilence many chaplains and hired parish priests refused to serve unless they were paid far too much. On June 27, 1349, the Bishop of Rochester sent an order to the Archdeacon of Rochester. It commanded these priests to serve for the same pay as before, on pain of suspension and interdict.