The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 9 (February 25, 1927)
A.D. 1348, The Great Plague
A.D. 1348, The Great Plague.
But, previously, the Great Plague, by diminishing the ranks of the labouring class, had raised wages and the standard of living among them, and had helped with other causes, to multiply the small land-owners and tenant farmers of the country, increasing the independent common class.