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Historical references to London's sounds

A database of several hundred historical descriptions and references to London's sounds. They're drawn mainly from primary sources such as autobiographies, diaries and statutes, as well as novels written around the times they depict.

 Street preachers and meetings       1     1 1
 Charitable services             1  
 Church and other indoor sermons     6 1   1    
 Church bells, music and song     3     2   1
 Funeral services and mourning     2          
 Religious dissent and protest     1          
 Rituals of other religions     1       1  
 Parades and processions   1            

Period referred to: Mid-14th century

Sound category: Religious > Parades and processions

Title of work: De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi Tertii

Type of publication: Chronicle

Author: Robert of Avesbury

Year of publication: 1349

Page/volume number: n/a

A procession of flagellants in the wake of the Black Death

They marched naked in a file one behind the other and whipped themselves with these scourges on their naked and bleeding bodies. Four of them would chant in their native tongue and another four would chant in response like a litany. Thrice they would all cast themselves on the ground in this sort of procession, stretching out their hands like the arms of a cross. The singing would go on [. . .] It is said that every night they performed the same penance.