[391] Stow, p. 1023. Baker, p. 332.
[392] Godwyn, p. 142.
[393] Among others, the Duke of Suffolk and his brother. Godwyn, loc. cit.
[394] “And the same being whote and terrible, inforced the people greatly to call upon God and to do many deedes of charity: but as the disease ceased, so the devotion quickly decayed.” Grafton, p. 525.
[395] History of Medicine, Vol. II. p. 136.
[396] Caius, p. 30, and at other places quoted. “And it so folowed the Englishmen, that such marchants of England, as were in Flaunders and Spaine, and other countries beyond the sea, were visited therewithall, and none other nation infected therewith.” Grafton, loc. cit. Compare Baker, p. 332. Holinshed, p. 1031.
[397] Caius, p. 48.
[398] See Appendix, “these thre contryes (England, the Netherlands, and Germany) whiche destroy more meates and drynckes without al order, convenient time, reason, or necessitie then either Scotlande, or all other countries under the sunne, to the great annoiance of their owne bodies and wittes,” &c. Compare p. 46 of the Lat. edit.
[399] Godwyn, loc. cit., expressly assures us, that gluttons who were taken with the disease when their stomachs were full, fell victims to it; and Kaye states, that besides aged persons and children, the poor, who from necessity lived frugally, and endured hardships, either remained free, or bore the disease more easily, p. 51.
[400] See above, pp. 231, 232.