Footnotes
- For an attempt to assess how seriously numbers were taken, see Edwards J. G. The emergence of majority rule in English parliamentary elections Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 1964 14 175 196 5th series
- There is a ringing denunciation of historians foolish enough to be beguiled by sociology in Elton G. R. England, 1200–1640 London 1969 242 43
- Russell , J. C. 1948 . British Medieval Population Albuquerque
- The Complete Peerage et al. London 1910–1959 ed 12 volumes in 13
- Orthodox treatments of who and what constituted the mediaeval peerage can be found in Pike L. O. A Constitutional History of the House of Lord London 1894
- This distinction was not used by Gay William On the duration of life among the families of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdon Journal of the Statistical Society of London 1845 13 66 77 in his
- Oliphant , T. L. K. 1875 . Was the old English aristocracy destroyed by the Wars of the Roses? . Transactions of the RoyalHistorical Society , 1
- Coale , A. J. and Demeny , P. 1966 . Regional Model Life Tables and Stable Populations Princeton
- Hollingsworth , T. H. 1969 . Historical Demography London
- Only seven peers seem to have died from what was reported to be the plague: Lord Talbot, the nth Earl of Warwick, Lord Poynings, John Mowbray, Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, Lord Cobham of Sterborough, and the first Duke of Lancaster. Only three of these men contracted their fatal illness in England. For the possibility that the plague was not bubonic plague, see Shrewsbury J. F. D. A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles Cambridge 1970
- Hunnisett , R. H. 1971 . “ The reliability of inquisitions as historical evidence ” . In The Study of Medieval Records: Essays in Honour of Kathleen Major Edited by: Bullough , D. A. and Storey , R. L. 206 – 37 . Oxford
- Gay , William . 1845 . On the duration of life among the families of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdon . Journal of the Statistical Society of London , 13 : 66 – 77 . in his