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

by Francis Aidan Gasquet

"Quia de sacerdotibus

Infirmos visitantibus

Quamplurimi defecerunt."

[81] Chronicon majus Ægidii Li Muisis, abbatis Sti. Martini Tornacensis, in De Smet, Receuil des Chroniques de Flandre, ii, pp. 279–281 and 361–382.

[82] S. Luce, Bertrand du Guesclin, i, ch. 3.

[83] Piot, Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Saint-Trond, i, 507.

[84] Lechner, Das grosse Sterben in Deutschland, p. 93.

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CHAPTER IV. THE PLAGUE IN OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

In following the great pestilence through Europe, according to the historical sequence of events, its course in England should be now described. Inasmuch, however, as the story of the ravages caused by the disease in England will be told in greater detail, it may conveniently be left till the last. Here a brief account may be interposed of the mortality in other European countries, although it will take the reader to the year 1351.