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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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Igitur M. Thoma de Curiâ Romanâ revertente consecrato, versùs Londoniam festinavit, & in Hospitio Episcopi Roffensis apud La Place per quatuor dies infirmus pausans obiit.

So Master Thomas came back from the papal court, already consecrated, and hurried toward London. At La Place, the Bishop of Rochester's house, he lay ill for four days and died.