[42] “Un tremblement de terre universel, mesme en France et aux pays septentrionaux, renversoit les villes toutes entières, déracinoit les arbres et les montagnes, et remplissoit les campagnes d’abysmes si profondes, qu’il semblait que l’enfer eût voulu engloutir le genre humain. Mezeray Loc. cit. p. 418. Barnes p. 431.
[43] Villani. Loc. cit. c. 119. p. 1000.
[44] Guillelm de Nanges, Cont. alt. Chron. Loc. cit. p. 109.
[45] Guillelm de Nanges Cont. alt. Chron. Loc. cit. p. 110.
[46] Villani. Loc. cit. c. 72. p. 954.
[47] Anonym. Istorie Pistolesi, in Muratori, T. XI. p. 524. “Ne gli anni di Chr. 1346 et 1347, fu grandissima carestia in tutta la Christianità, in tanto, che molta genie moria di fame, e fu grande mortalità in ogni paese del mondo.”
[48] 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.
[49] 1301, in the South of France; 1311, in Italy; 1316, in Italy, Burgundy and Northern Europe; 1335, the locust years, 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.
[50] Compare Deguignes. Loc. cit. p. 288.
[51] According to the general Byzantine designation, “from the country of the hyperborean Scythians.” Kantakuzen. Loc. cit.