Of this we are infoitued by Stow, " that it overspread all
England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person
of all sorts was left ahve, and churchyards were not suffi-
cient to receive the dead. For this reason Ealph Stratford,
Bishop of London, bought thirteen acres of land called No
Man's Laud, and added it to the ancient Pardon church-
yard lying on waste land northwards to St. Paul's ; and in
the same year, 1348, Sir Walter Manny purchased another
No Man's Land — now the Charter House — and devoted it for
a cemetery to those who died of the pestilence, of whom
more than 50,000 wtre buried in it, and the whole mortality
in London is generally reputed to have exceeded 100,000."



12 ON OLD LONDON : ITS INSANITARY CONDITIONS

Speed writes of it : " It rained from Midsummer to Christ-
mas, and SO terrible a plague spread through the worid, that
the earth was filled with graves and the air with cries, which
was seconded with murder of cattle and death of all things.
