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==Notes==
# According to Fossier (p 89), a number of [[yeomen]] had benefited by the disappearance of many of their neighbours, as they were able to take over their empty farmlands and were then in a position to pay the going wages. However, while Hollister (p 285) and Soto (p 71) argue for the plague's positive socio-economic effects, Fossier (p 89) further suggests these were offset by state intervention in the form of royal taxation and wage restrictions. Edward III's issuance of the ''Ordinance of Labourers'' in 1349 limited the steep rise in wages that resulted from the plague, and the yeomen who had previously benefited now found themselves "deprived by royal ordinance of their essential workforce". The enforcement of such wage restrictions in 1351–1359 was to provoke serious unrest in [[Cheshire]] and [[Oxfordshire]] in [[1350s|that decade]], while increased taxation in France caused similar discontent culminating in the ''[[Jacquerie]]'' (Fossier, p&nbsp;89–90).