The Great Pestilence (A.D. 1348-9), Now Commonly Known as the Black Death

by Francis Aidan Gasquet

[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.