Roncioni, Istorie Pisane in Archivio Storico Italiano, iv, 808.
45
Chronicon Pragense, ed. Loserth in Fontes rerum Austriacarum, Scriptores, vol. i, p. 395.
46
Labbe, Nova Bibliotheca Manuscriptorum, i, p. 343.
47
C. Anglada, Étude sur les Maladies Éteintes, p. 432.
48
Matthias Nuewenburgensis in Boehmer, Fontes rerum Germanicarum, iv, p. 261.
49
Henricus Rebdorfensis, Ibid., p. 560. Another account speaks of Marseilles remaining afterwards almost "depopulated," and of "thousands dying in the adjoining towns" (Chronicon Pragense, in Fontes rerum Austriacarum, Scriptores, i, p. 395).
50
J. Astruc, Histoire de la Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier (Montpellier, 1862), p. 184.
51
Anglada, ut supra, p. 432.
52
Opuscule relatif à la peste de 1348, composé par un contemporain in Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 1e Sér., ii, pp. 201–243.
53
Martin, Histoire de France (4th ed.), v, p. 109.
54
Phillippe, Histoire de la Peste Noire, p. 103.
55
Anglada, Maladies Éteintes, p. 431.
56
Higden, Polychronicon (ed. Rolls Series), viii, p. 344.
57
L. Michon, Documents inédits sur la grande peste de 1348 (Paris, 1860), p. 22.
58
Baluze, Vitæ Paparum Avenionensium, i, p. 254. In a second life of Clement VII. (p. 274) it is said that vast pits were dug in the public cemetery, where the dead were buried "ut pecora gregatim."
59
The writer was sending his letter on April 27th, 1348, so that the period would have been about six weeks.
60
Breve Chronicon clerici anonymi, in De Smet, Recueil des Chroniques de Flandre, iii, pp. 14–18.
61
Henricus Rebdorfensis, in Boehmer, Fontes, iv, p. 560.
62
Anglada, Maladies Éteintes, pp. 413–14.
63
Barnes, History of Edward III., p. 435.
64
Thiener, Monumenta Historica Hungariæ, i, p. 767.
65
Wadding, Annales Minorum, viii, p. 25 (ed. 1723).
66
Olivier de la Haye, Poëme sur la grande peste de 1348. Introduction par G. Guigue, p. xviii, note.
67
Breve Chronicon in De Smet, Recueil des Chroniques de Flandre, iii, p. 19.
68
Delisle, Cabinet des Manuscrits, i, p. 532.
69
Ibid. Here the note abruptly finishes.
70
H. Martin, Histoire de France, v, p. 111.
71
Marlot, Histoire de Ville de Reims, iv, p. 63.
72
All copies of this chronicle give "quingente," and it has usually been stated that the number so buried each day was 500. M. Géraud, who edited the work for the Société de l'Histoire de France, suggests that it is a mistake for 50, and quotes two MSS., in which in the margin the following note is found: "L corps par jour a l'Hostel-Dieu de Paris." As this reading is more probable it has been adopted above.
73
Continuatio Chronici Guillelmi di Nangiaco, éd. pour la Société de l'Histoire de France par H. Géraud, ii, pp. 211–217.
74
They speak in the document of "the 17th of the ensuing month of July."
75
Michon, Documents inédits sur la Peste Noire, p. 22.
76
Thierry, Recueil des Monuments inédits de l'Histoire du Tiers Etat, i, p. 544.
77
Ibid., p. 546.
78
"Certe dicere timeoQuæ vidi et quæ videoDe ista pestilentia."
79
Gams, Series Episcoporum, gives 13th June, 1349, as the day of his death.
80
"Quia de sacerdotibusInfirmos visitantibusQuamplurimi defecerunt."
81
Chronicon majus Ægidii Li Muisis, abbatis Sti. Martini Tornacensis, in De Smet, Receuil des Chroniques de Flandre, ii, pp. 279–281 and 361–382.
