Edw. the third.] that a quarter of wheat was sold for xl _s'.

_ In the year of our Lord M. cccxlviij, there began a great plague at London, about the festival of saint Michael, and it endured until the festival of saint Peter ad [Sidenote: In the xxxv^{th} and xxxvj^{th} year of king Ed. third.

] vincula next following. In the year of our Lord one thousand ccclxj, the xviij^{th} kl. of February, on the festival of saint Maurus abbot, happened a violent and terrible gale throughout all England.

In the same year was a second plague, in which died that noble and brave man, [Sidenote: In the xliij^{rd} year of king Edw. third.] Henry duke of Lancaster.