1349-01-26, Kings Langley

To the justices of the Bench. Order to adjourn to the quinzaine of Easter next all pleas now pending before them of the present quinzaine of Hilary and the morrow and octaves of the Purification, if writs touching those pleas have been returned before them in the Bench, and to appoint that quinzaine for the parties sueing those affairs, ordering the sheriffs to retain until the said quinzaine all writs from now to that day, to be returned before those justices, in accordance with the ordinance made by the king and his council at Langele on account of the mortality due to the terrible plague chiefly in the city of London and the neighbouring parts, whereby the justices, the clerks, serjeants and other ministers of the Bench and the people suing their affairs, would incur great danger. By K. and C.