And to quote but one more example: "On 5th July, [p057] 1352, relief was granted to the inhabitants of the town of Arras because by reason of the wars, and because of the mortality which has been universal in the world, the said city is so greatly decayed, both as to buildings and people, as also in revenues and temporal goods, that it is on the high road to (absolute) desolation."[84]
FOOTNOTES:
[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.