Dame Merouda Pendray

her chronicle

 

This is both a research project and an experiment in creating a diary in the style of a Tudor-era woman. Research notes are usually found here, and my primary journal is here.

14 May 2020

*ij* daies befor ye Ides of May in ys, ye Year of ye Plague, Liam St Liam hath died of said plague in ye Newe Kingdom of ye East. And woe betides vs all.

11 May 2020

On ys date, I received a missive of ye Crown that said Lady Hrefna Bjarnarsdottir hath died ye day before ye Nones of May in ye Year of ye Plague. And yt ys is because of her heart.

07 May 2020

On ys day, I received news from Baroness Eva of Greenfield yt ye Lady Cecelia di' Cefalu hath died of a malady of the breast.

01 May 2020

On ys date, I did receive news of one of ye clerks in ye Earleā€™s Chancery yt two of ye people I have befriended have died in ye month of April, and I most heavy of heart for ys news.