the black death arrived in england in 1346.
the black death arrived in england in 1346.
when did the black death arrived in england?
1346
according to the chronicle of the grey friars at king's lynn, the plague arrived by ship from gascony to melcombe in dorsettoday normally referred to as weymouthshortly before "the feast of st. john the baptist" on 24 june 1348. from weymouth the disease spread rapidly across the south-west. the first major city to be struck was bristol. london was reached in the autumn of 1348, before most of the surrounding countryside. this had certainly happened by november, though according to some accounts as early as 29 september. the full effect of the plague was felt in the capital early the next year. conditions in london were ideal for the plague: the streets were narrow and flowing with sewage, and houses were overcrowded and poorly ventilated. by march 1349 the disease was spreading in a haphazard way across all of southern england. during the first half of 1349 the black death spread northwards. a second front opened up when the plague arrived by ship at the humber, from where it spread both south and north. in may it reached york, and during the summer months of june, july and august, it ravaged the north. certain northern counties, like durham and cumberland, had been the victim of violent incursions from the scots, and were therefore left particularly vulnerable to the devastations of the plague. pestilence is less virulent during the winter months, and spreads less rapidly. the black death in england had survived the winter of 1348–49, but during the following winter it ended, and by december 1349 conditions were returning to relative normalcy. it had taken the disease approximately 500 days to traverse the entire country. the black death brought a halt to edward's campaigns by killing between a third to more than half of his subjects. the king passed the ordinance of labourers and the statute of labourers in response to the shortage of labour and social unrest that followed the plague. the labour laws were ineffectively enforced and the repressive measures caused resentment.
england in the late middle ages
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