A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) / From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague

by Charles Creighton

[467] Scotichronicon, p. 1141.

[468] Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, III. 650.

[469] Ibid. III. 310.

[470] Ibid. III. 553.

[471] Ibid. III. 579.

[472] Scotichronicon, p. 1287 and p. 1298.

[473] Cited by R. Chambers (Domestic Annals of Scotland, I. 57) from the Chronicle as printed by Thomas Thomson.

[474] Scotichronicon, p. 1565. Hearne’s edition.

[475] Ferrerius, f. 393, cited in Excheq. Rolls of Scot. VIII. p. lx.

[476] Excheq. Rolls of Scot. VIII. 364. Accounts of William, bishop of Orkney, from 5 Aug. 1475 to 3 Aug. 1476: “et decem martis liberatis, de tempore pestis, egrotantibus in Incheskeith.” Another item (£30. 13s. 4d.) is for forty-six marts destroyed “propter longam moram” in the lairs at Leith, “anno pestis, videlicet anno ultimo.”