The Statute of Labourers was a law created by the English parliament under King Edward III in 1351 in response to a labour shortage, which aimed at regulating the labour force by prohibiting requesting or offering a wage higher than pre-Plague standards and limiting movement in search of better conditions. The popular narrative about its success and enforcement holds that it was …

Great Plague of Ireland (1348–1351) May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague; Great Plague of Scotland (1348–1350) May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague; Great Plague of Russia (1349–1353) May have been caused by: Viral hemorrhagic plague or bubonic plague; great plague of asia and ...

Offences. High treason today consists of: Treason Act 1351 (as amended – last amended by the Succession to the Crown Act 2013): . compassing the death of the sovereign, or of the king's wife (but not a ruling queen's husband), or the sovereign's eldest child and heir violating the king's wife, or the sovereign's eldest unmarried daughter, or the sovereign's eldest son's wife (only if the ...