In the following table, the numbers of licences for alienations in mortmain that were issued year by year are analysed.

In the hope of making the table more useful as an indication of the effects of the Black Death, I have omitted those licences which merely allowed exchanges of property. I have also omitted çancelled licences, if the record shows that the cancellation took place because the licence was not carried out.

Under the heading of friars, I have included only the four orders of Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, and Carmelites, since it seemed better to include the Trinitarian friars and others, whose mode of life resembled that of the regular canons, among the monks and canons. Some thirteen licences on behalf of the Knights of St John have also been included among the licences to the monks and canons. There were also seventeen licences for grants in mortmain to guilds, but since the object of these was almost invariably the support of chaplains, I have included these among the grants made to or on behalf of the secular clergy.