[181] Forest. p. 157. Schol.
[182] Paré, loc. cit.
[183] So small-pox and measles, it is well known, are the forerunners of plague.
[184] Fabian, p. 699.
[185] Sir William Compton, and William Carew, besides many other distinguished persons who are not named.
[186] Grafton, p. 412, the principal passage. Compare Holinshed, p. 735. Baker, p. 293. Hall, p. 750. Herbert of Cherbury, p. 215.
[187] During Henry the Eighth’s reign (1509 to 1547), 72,000 malefactors were, according to Harrison, executed for theft and robbery, making nearly 2000 for each year. Hume, T. IV. p. 275.
[188] Stow, p. 885.
[189] Fabian, loc. cit.
[190] ——“it seeming to be but the same contagion of the aire, varied according to the clime.” Herbert of Cherbury, loc. cit.