[221] Ibid. fol. 433. a. 435. b. Schwelin, pp. 149, 150.
[222] A Chronicler of the Marches even assures us that it lasted until 1546. Annales Berol. Marchic: but the other contemporary writers contradict this.
[223] Spangenberg, fol. 432. a.
[224] Newenar indeed maintains that the Sweating Fever used to break out in England every year, fol. 68. b., but such general and unsupported assertions coming from foreigners (the Graf Hermann von Newenar was provost of Cologne) are wholly unworthy of credence.
[225] About the 25th of July.
[226] From St. James’s day, the 25th of July, until the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the 15th of August. Staphorst.
[227] It appears, for instance, somewhere in the second volume of Leibnitz, Scriptores rerum Brunsvicensium, that 8000 people had died of the Sweating Fever in Hamburgh. An unknown Chronicler in Staphorst, Part II vol. I. p. 85, states 2000.
[228] “Moreover in the year 1529, about St. James’s day, Almighty God sent a terrible disease upon the city of Hamburgh; it was the Sweating Sickness, which showed itself in a different manner, and began when Captain Hermann Evers came from England on St. James’s day with many young companions, of whom, in the course of two days, twelve died of this disease, which was unknown as well in Hamburgh as in other countries, so that the oldest person did not recollect to have seen a similar disease.” An unknown eye-witness, quoted in Staphorst, Part II. Vol. I. p. 83. Another person expresses himself to the same effect, p. 85. “The disease had its origin in England, for the people were there attacked in the street when they came on shore, and those who came in contact with them, many of whom were of the lower class, took it.” Notices of uncertain date to be found in Adelung, at p. 77. Steltzner, Part II. p. 219. In the abbrev. Hamb. Chron. p. 45, and elsewhere.
[229] “As soon as the ship arrived in Hamburgh people began to die throughout the city, and in the morning it was rumoured that four persons had died of it.” From Reimar Koch’s MS. Chron. of Lübeck. For the extract from it the author is indebted to the kindness of Professor Ackermann of Lübeck.
[230] Klemzen, p. 254. It was thought that the waters of the Baltic were poisoned.