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Typhus was also common in prisons (and in crowded conditions where lice spread easily), where it was known as Gaol fever or Jail fever.[6] Gaol fever often occurs when prisoners are frequently huddled together in dark, filthy rooms. Imprisonment until the next term of court was often equivalent to a death sentence. Typhus was so infectious that prisoners brought before the court sometimes infected the court itself. Following the Black Assize of Oxford 1577, over 510 died from epidemic typhus, including Speaker Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.[7] The outbreak that followed, between 1577 and 1579, killed about 10% of the English population.[citation needed]