[411] Haftitz, p. 167. Angelus, p. 344.
[412] Chron. Chron. p. 403. Leuthinger, p. 248.
[413] Angelus, loc. cit.
[414] Spangenberg, fol. 465. a. Magdeburg was besieged at this time for having refused to accept the “Interim.”
[415] Wurstisen, p. 624. Spangenberg, fol. 466. a.
[416] In the March of Brandenburg, crosses, as they were called, were seen upon clothes in the year 1547 (Leuthinger, p. 216); red water was seen at Zörbig, in the year 1549, (Ibid. p. 231,) and frequently likewise in the year 1551. (Chron. Chron. p. 402.) Agricola seems to point to these connected phenomena in the passage already quoted; see p. 206, note e.
[417] “Pestis insuper in certis sæviebat Germaniæ provinciis (1533,) præsertim Nurenbergæ et Babenbergæ, et villis oppidisque per girum. Et est stupenda res, quod hæc plaga nunquam totaliter cessat, sed omni anno regnat, jam hic, nunc alibi, de loco in locum, de provincia in provinciam migrando, et si recedit aliquamdiu, tamen post paucos annos et circuitum revertitur, et juventutem interim natam in ipso flore pro parte majore amputat.”—Jo. Lange, Chron. Nuremburgens. eccles., in Mencken, T. II. col. 88.
[418] Spangenberg, fol. 369. b.
[419] Fernel, de abditis rerum causis, L. II. p. 107.
[420] See Fernel. Wurstisen, (p. 613,) however, states that the preceding winter had been very warm. Thus Aph. 12. sect. III. would hold good.