Note 383 — Chapter X · SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT MORTALITY.

Mr. Baigent's MS. extracts from the Episcopal Registers. It is of interest to note that in normal times very few were ordained after their appointment as incumbents. Thus, to take the churches in the city of Winchester, besides this period and 1361, when again the mortality among the clergy was very great, only some 8 or 9 were so ordained between 1349 and 1361, as the following table will show:—

1346 1348 1349 1350 1351 1352

1 1 19 8 4 1

1354 1359 1361 1362 1363

2 1 5 1 1