[111] Crusius, T. II. p. 187.
[112] On the 16th of June, 1517, there was a great earthquake, and a tremendous storm of wind at Nördlingen, so that the parish church at St. Emeran was completely forced out of the ground and thrown down, and it was reckoned that there were 2000 houses and stables in that place which, for a space of two miles long, were overthrown and rent, and there were few houses there which were not, like the church, damaged and shaken to pieces. Wintzenberger, fol. 21. b.
[113] In Xativa. Villalba, T. I. p. 83.
[114] “Il est saoul comme un Angloys.”—Rondelet, de dign. morb. fol. 35. b.
[115] Elyot, in his “Castell of Health,” quoted by Aikin, p. 64. Rondelet, loc. cit.
[116] In 1724, which was a great fruit year, there arose in this very county, from the immoderate use of cyder, an epidemic cholic; the Colica Damnoniorum. Vide Huxham, Opera. (Lips. 1764.) Tom. III. p. 54.
[117] Elyot, in Aikin, p. 63.
[118] Le Grand d’Aussy, T. I. p. 143.
[119] Hume, T. IV. p. 273. Aikin, p. 59.
[120] “Now-a-days, if a boy of seven years of age, or a young man of twenty years, have not two caps on his head, he and his friends will think that he may not continue in health; and yet, if the inner cap be not of velvet or satin, a serving-man feareth to lose his credence.” Elyot, in Aikin, p. 64.