John de Stratford
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1333 and a chief adviser to Edward III.
c. 1275–1348
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
Anno xxiii. regni Regis Edwardi III. obiit Johannes de Stratford Archiepiscopus Cant. apud Maghfeld, dux Regis & ejus Consiliarius principalis in vitâ suâ; & ideo post mortem ipsius pro mercede suâ omnia ejus bona confiscantur, possessiones & praedia destruuntur.
In the twenty-third year of the reign of King Edward III, John de Stratford, Archbishop of Canterbury, died at Maghfeld. In his lifetime he had been the king's guide and his chief counselor. And so, after his death, this was his reward: all his goods were seized, and his property and estates were laid waste.