 | Sir Walter Besant, James Rice - 1881 - 244 pàgines
...proceeded by leaps and bounds, but for the dreadful pestilence of the year 1350 — when, as is asserted, " scarce the tenth person of all sorts " was left alive — and the famine of the year 1359. All their privileges pointed, of course, in one direction : the citizens wanted... | |
 | Walter Besant, James Rice - 1881 - 300 pàgines
...proceeded by leaps and bounds, but for the dreadful pestilence of the year 1350 — when, as is asserted, " scarce the tenth person of all sorts " was left alive — and the famine of the year 1359. All their privileges pointed, of course, in one direction : the citizens wanted... | |
 | 1885 - 150 pàgines
...our capture of Calais. Of this we are informed by Stow, " that it overspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead. For this reason Ealph Stratford, Bishop of London,... | |
 | Epidemiological Society of London - 1885 - 152 pàgines
...our capture of Calais. Of this we are informed by Stow, " that it overspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead. For this reason Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London,... | |
 | John Stow - 1890 - 496 pàgines
...Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire, and at length came to London, and overspread all England, so wasting the people that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead, but men were forced to choose out certain fields... | |
 | Sir William Henry St. John Hope - 1925 - 248 pàgines
...Glocester shire, and Oxfordshire, and at length came to London, and overspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and Churchyards were not sufficient to receive the dead, but men were forced to chuse out certain fields... | |
 | 1873 - 420 pàgines
...population of England and Wales numbered probably from 3,000,000 to 4,000,000. Stowe says that the scourge "so wasted and spoyled the people that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive." In six months there died in the city of Norwich more than 57,000 persons. In the graveyard of Spittle... | |
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Oxfordshire, and at length came to London, and overspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive... 
