The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

by J. F. C. Hecker; John Caius

[91] Trithem. Annal. Hirsaug. loc. cit.

[92] Loc. cit. L. XII. c. 99. p. 977.

[93] Chronic. Claustro-Neoburg. in Pez. Vol. I. p. 490. Comp. Barnes, p. 435. Raynald Histor. ecclesiastic, loc. cit. According to this account, a runaway Venetian is said to have brought the plague to Padua.

[94] Giov. Villani, L. XII. c. 83. p. 964.

[95] Barnes, p. 436.

[96] Wood, loc. cit.

[97] Wood says, that before the plague, there were 13,000 students at Oxford; a number which may, in some degree, enable us to form an estimate of the state of education in England at that time, if we consider that the universities were, in the middle ages, frequented by younger students, who in modern times do not quit school till their 18th year.

[98] Barnes and Wood, loc. cit.

[99] Gobelin. Person, in Meibom. loc. cit.

[100] Juan de Mariana. Historia General de España, illustrated by Don José Sabau y Blanco. Tom. IX. Madrid, 1819. 8vo. Libro XVI. p. 225. Don Diego Ortiz de Zúñiga, Annales ecclesiasticos y seculares de Sevilla. Madrid, 1795. 4to. T. II. p. 121. Don Juan de Ferreras, Historia de España. Madrid, 1721. T. VII. p. 353.