[61] Grafton, p. 220. Webster, Vol. I. p. 149.
[62] Stow, p. 809. Fabian, p. 689. Hall, p. 502. Grafton, p. 230. Holinshed, p. 536. Bacon, p. 225.
[63] Spangenberg, M. Chr. fol. 403. a. Pestilenz, A. 1505.
[64] Webster, Vol. I. p. 151. Franck, fol. 219. a. Pingré, T. I. p. 481.
[65] Bacon, p. 225. Stow, p. 809. Compare the other chroniclers, who most of them notice this event in great detail.
[66] Bacon, p. 231.
[67] Empson and Dudley, ministers of Henry VII., who left behind him treasure to the amount of £1,800,000 sterling. Compare Hume, Hist. of Eng. Vol. III., Bacon, and almost all the chroniclers. Both ministers were executed in the following reign, in the year 1509. Grafton, p. 236.
[68] Villalba, T. I. pp. 69. 99.—Ferdinand’s conflicts with the Saracens began in 1481, and ended with the fall of Granada in 1492. The disease is called in Spanish Tabardillo, which name, however, Villalba has not quoted at so early a period as 1490.
[69] Villalba, loc. cit. p. 66.
[70] Ibid. p. 69—Fracastor, de morbis contagios. L. II. c. 6. p. 155.—Schenck von Grafenberg, L. VI. p. 553. T. II.