The year 1348 brought an event of far greater importance than the
creation of a new order of chivalry. This was the terrible plague, known as the
Black Death, which reached almost every part of Britain during 1348-9. Probably
more than one-third of the entire population of Britain died, and fewer than one
person in ten who caught the plague managed to survive it.' Whole villages
disappeared, and some towns were almost completely deserted until the plague
itself died out.
The Black Death was neither the first natural disaster of the fourteenth
century, nor the last. Pl
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