The pestilence in England : an historical sketch. / By John Netten Radcliffe.

  • John Netten Radcliffe
Date:
1852
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    POSTSCRIPT. According to the Compilers of the Monumenta Historica Britannica, pestilence prevailed in England at the fol- lowing periods anterior to the Norman Conquest :— A. D. 446. A pestilent contagion fell heavily on the foolish peo- ple. Gildas, sec. 22. (A. D. 450, in the text: see p. 7. There is no trustworthy record of the prevalence of pestilence prior to this date.) A. D. 537. There was a mortality in Britain and Ireland.—Annales Cambria:. A great mortality called 'blefed.' Tigemachi Annales. Anno 541. A. D. 547. There was a great mortality called ' Crom canaille vel Flava scabies: (A. D. 560-90 [?], see p. 8.) A. D. 664. Bede, c. xvj : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. (See p. 10.) A. D. 681. A mortality prevailed in many provinces of Britain. (A. D. 685, in the text: see p. 11.) A. D. 682. There was a great mortality. (A. D. 697, in the text: see p. 11.) (A. D. 683. There was a mortality in Ireland.—Ann. Cambria;.) A. D. 685. There was a great pestilence.—Florence of Worcester. (A. D. 809. There was a mortality among the cattle over the island of Britain.—Chronicle of the Princes of Wales. A. D. 810 according to the Annales Cambria.) A. D. 987. There was a great mortality from famine.—Annales < 'ambries. A. D. 988, Chronicle of the Princes of Wales. A. D. 1047. There was a great mortality throughout Britain. NOTE. The Monumenta Historica Britannica, or Materials for the History of Britain from the Earliest Period, was undertaken in pursuance of an address presented by the House of Commons, in 1822, to George IV. The first volume (the only one published) was edited by Hy. Petrie, Esq., the Rev. J. Sharpe, F. S. A., and T. D. Hardy, Esq. : and it contains extracts relative to Britain from Greek and Roman writers ; the works of Gildas; Nennius's History of the Britons ; Bede's Chronicon and Ecclesiastical History; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ; Asser's Life of Alfred ; the Chronicles of GEthelwerd, Florence of Worcester, Simeon of Durham, and Henry of Hunting- don; GaimarsL'Pstorie des Engles; the Annales Cambria;; the Brut II Tywysogion, or, Chronicle of the Princes of Wales; and the Carmen de Bello Hastingensi.
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