[82] Torfaeus. Loc. cit.
[83] According to another account, 960. Chronic. Salisburg, in Pez. Loc. cit. T. I. p. 412.
[84] According to an anonymous Chronicler, each of these pits is said to have contained 40,000; this, however, we are to understand as only in round numbers. Anonym. Leobiens, in Pez. p. 970. According to this writer, above seventy persons died in some houses, and many were entirely deserted, and at St. Stephen’s alone, fifty-four ecclesiastics were cut off.
[85] Auger. de Biterris in Muratori. Vol. III. P. II. p. 556. In Gobelin Person, the same is said of Paderborn, in Henr. Meibom. Rer. Germanic. Script. T. I. p. 286. Helmstadt: 1688. fol.
[86] Spangenberg. Loc. cit. chap. 287, fol. 336–7.
[87] Barnes. 435.
[88] Trithem. Annal. Hirsaug. Loc. cit.
[89] Loc. cit. L. XII. c. 99. p. 977.
[90] Chronic. Claustro-Neuburg. in Pez. Vol. I. p. 490. Comp. Barnes p. 435. Raynald Histor. ecclesiastic Loc. cit. According to this, a runaway Venetian is said to have brought the plague to Padua.
[91] Giov. Villani, L. XII. c. 83, p. 964.