A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles Creighton

relinquished, and none scarce left to keep possession or make up a competent number to bury the dead.” The rest of his account of the Black Death is copied from Le Baker’s Chronicle of Osney. [236] _Itinerarium_, _l. c._ [237] Stow’s _Survey_. “Portsoken Ward.” [238] “Lying without the walls on the north part of the city between the land of the abbot of Westminster and the prior of St John of Jerusalem.” French Chronicle of London (p. 56), as quoted by Stubbs, in preface (p. lxxxi) to _Annales Londonienses_, Rolls series, No. 76. [239] Robertus de Avesbury, _Historia Edwardi III._ Rolls ed. p. 407. “Quotidie multos vita privavit, et in tantum excrevit quod a festo Purificationis usque post Pascha, in novo tunc facto cimiterio juxta Smithfeld plus quam cc corpora defunctorum, praeter corpora quae in aliis cimiteriis civitatis ejusdem sepeliebantur, quasi diebus singulis sepulta fuerunt.... In festo Pentecostes cessavit Londoniis.” [240] Stow’s _Memoranda_. Camden Soc., 1880. [241] Camden’s _Britannia_, ed. Gough, II. 9. [242] Rickman, _Abstract of the Population Returns of 1831_. London, 1832.