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A historiographical debate over this event between G. G. Coulton and Francis Aidan Gasquet concerned its effects on the clergy. A Dutch group active during this international event may have inspired the name of the Lollards, a sect (-5[1])that formed [emphasise] a generation later under John Wycliffe. In England, this event began after some sailors travelled (-5[1])from Gascony to Weymouth. (-5[1])After (10[1])this event, (-5[1])seeking a pay rise was outlawed (10[2])by the Statute of Labourers, enacted under (10[1])Edward III. The disruption of this event is often considered an indirect cause of the Peasants’ Revolt, (10[1])which began three decades later. (10[1])For 10 points, about a third of England’s (-5[1])population (10[1])died in what 14th-century (10[3])pandemic? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Black Death [or Great Pestilence; prompt on plague; prompt on bubonic plague outbreak]
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