In the wake of the plague, the number of English cloths exported to the Continent declined by almost two-thirds in 1349 and 1350, and lingered at that level through 1353. But in 1354, the preplague export level was achieved once again, “and during the next four years [the woolen export business] was to become more prosperous than before the pestilence . . . [and] had doubled within a decade.”
