Middle+Ages+Letter

Dear Pope Cleo III, Where I am living now people had been becoming very sick and dying two to five days after being diagnosed from the Black Death. The Black Death is a plague that is also known as the Bubonic plague. This plague was spread by rats that had fleas who were biting humans. There were only few people who survived these tragic times causing a lack of employees. Those who did survive demanded higher wages. This caused an economic plunge and an inflation in prices. To combat inflation landowners tried to limit wages and denied journeymen to become masters and guilds limited apprentices. With everything that was going on Churches were unable to provide a strong leadership. Oxford Professor attacked church corruption he started to translate the bible into English because he insisted that the bible was the source of all Christian truth not the Churches. Right now there is a war that is going on called the Hundred Years War. English rulers are at battle for French lands. There is a new weapon that has been created called the Longbow. The longbow is six feet long and could discharge three arrows for every one French arrow and could pierce through armor. Sincerely, Henry IV