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The kingdom ruled by Edward III at the time of the Black Death.

Today: England, United Kingdom

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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Eodem anno pestis antea inaudita in Angliâ desaeviebat.

That same year a plague never heard of before raged through England.