[107] Ralph of Coggeshall, Rolls series, No. 66, p. 156.
[108] He might have been, and probably was, the prototype of the physician Nathan Ben Israel, in the 35th Chapter of Ivanhoe.
[109] Adam de Marisco to Grosseteste, Mon. Francisc. ed. Brewer, I. 113.
[110] I have not succeeded in finding this in the author’s writings, and quote it at second hand.
[111] Quoted, without date, by Marchand, Étude historique et nosographique sur quelques épidémies et endémies du moyen âge. Paris, 1873.
[112] I give this account of the obvious characters of spurred rye from a recent observation of a growing crop of it.
[113] One of the greatest epidemics was in Westphalia and the Cologne district in 1596 and 1597. It fell to be described by two learned writers, Sennert and Horst, of whose accounts a summary is given by Short, Air, weather, seasons, etc. I. 275-285.
[114] Translated into the Philosophical Transactions, No. 130, vol. XII. p. 758 (14 Dec. 1676) from the Journal des Sçavans.
[115] Studien über den Ergotismus, Marburg, 1856.
[116] Simeon of Durham and Roger of Howden have the following, under the year 1048: “Mortalitas hominum et animalium multas occupavit Angliae provincias, et ignis aereus, vulgo dictus sylvaticus, in Deorbensi provincia et quibusdam aliis provinciis, villas et segetes multas ustulavit.”