Law Courts at St. Albans

Although unable to answer Σ., perhaps I may do him service by enabling him to put his Query more correctly. The disease which drove the lawyers from London in the 6th year of Elizabeth (1563) was not the *sweating sickness* (which has not returned since the reign of Edward VI.), but a plague brought into England by the late garrison of Havre de Grâce. And it was at *Hertford* that Candlemas term was kept on the occasions. See Heylyn, *Hist. Ref.*, ed. Eccl. Hist. Soc. ii. 401.