[319] Alex. Rittmann, Chronik der Pest. Brünn, 1879.
[320] Thomas Lodge, Treatise of the Plague, Lond. 1603, chap. III. Skene, in his Edinburgh essay on plague in 1568, gives as a sign of impending plague the moles and “serpents” leaving their holes: “As when the moudewart and serpent leavis the eird, beand molestit be the vapore contenit within the bowells of the samin.” He adds what agrees still farther with modern experience in Yun-nan: “If the domesticall fowls become pestilential, it is ane signe of maist dangerous pest to follow.” (Bannatyne Club ed. p. 9).
[321] The writer of the article “Peste” in the Dict. Encycl. des Sc. Med., Dr Mahé, inclines on the whole to the view that the poison of plague is somehow related to cadaveric products: “Parmi ces accusations d’insalubrité publique, il en est une qui repose sur un objectif plus positif en apparance” viz. the “miasme des cadavres.”
[322] Sir Tobie Matthews’ Letters. Lond. 1660, p. 110.
[323] Epist. de rebus familiar. Lib. viii. epist. 7. The citation of these contemporary illustrations of the Black Death was begun in the last century by Sprengel (Beiträge, &c., p. 37).
[324] Foedera, III. 184; it was renewed on 30th June for a year longer.
[325] Avesbury.
[326] Foedera, III. 192.
[327] Ib. 193.
[328] Ib. 200, 201.