The evidence suggests that after sustained population growth into at least the 1330s, approximately 60 per cent of the townspeople died during the Black Death of 1349. However, significant migration by the early 1350s, and again in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, led to periods of population recovery.

One of the most interesting conclusions of this research is that the population of Nottingham appears to have continued to grow beyond the supposed ‘zenith’ of 1300. As with Lynn and Norwich, the population seems to have significantly increased during the early fourteenth century, until at least the 1330s, and that significant migration was a feature of most of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Research of other towns may establish whether such growth was a more common characteristic of English demographic change than has previously been believed.