[51] According to Papon, its origin is quite lost in the obscurity of remote ages; and even before the Christian Era, we are able to trace many references to former pestilences. De la peste, ou époques mémorables de ce fléau, et les moyens de s’en préserver. T. II. Paris, An VIII. de la rép. 8.
[52] 1301, in the South of France; 1311, in Italy; 1316, in Italy, Burgundy and Northern Europe; 1335, the locust year, in the middle of Europe; 1340, in Upper Italy; 1342, in France; and 1347, in Marseilles and most of the larger islands of the Mediterranean. Ibid. T. II. p. 273.
[53] Compare Deguignes, loc. cit. p. 288.
[54] According to the general Byzantine designation, “from the country of the hyperborean Scythians.” Kantakuzen, loc. cit.
[55] Guid. Cauliac, loc. cit.
[56] Matt. Villani, Istorie, in Muratori, T. XIV. p. 14.
[57] Annal. Cæsenat, Ibid. p. 1179.
[58] Barnes, loc. cit.
[59] Olof Dalin’s, Svea-Rikes Historie, III. vol. Stockholm, 1747–61, 4. Vol. II. C. 12, p. 496.
[60] Dlugoss, Histor. Polon. L. IX. p. 1086, T. I. Lips. 1711, fol.