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Halling

Village on the Medway with a manor of the bishops of Rochester.

Today: Halling, Kent, England

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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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.