A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2): From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague — John Shaqi
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2): From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of PlagueCreighton, Charles
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A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2): From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague
Creighton, Charles
Epidemics -- Great Britain -- History
1125 Most dire famine in all Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. William
England; pestilence and of Malmesbury, _Gest. Pont._
murrain p. 442. Henry of Huntingdon.
Annals of Margan. Roger of
Howden.
[1130 Great murrain Annals of Margan. Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle (_sub anno_ 1131)]
1137 } Famine from civil war; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Annals
1140 } mortality of Winchester. Henry of
Huntingdon (1138)
1143 Famine and mortality. Gesta Stephani, p. 98. William
of Newburgh. Henry of
Huntingdon
1171 Famine in London in Spring Stow, _Survey of London_
1172 Dysentery among the troops Radulphus de Diceto, _Imag.
in Ireland Hist._ i. 348
1173 “Tussis quaedam mala et Chronica de Mailros
inaudita”
1175 Pestilence; famine Benedict of Peterborough. Roger
of Howden
1189 Famine and mortality Annals of Margan. Giraldus
Cambrensis, _Itin. Walliae_
1194} Effects of a five years’ Annals of Burton. William of
1195} scarcity; great mortality Newburgh. Roger of Howden
1196} over all England iii. 290. Rigord. Bromton
1197} (in Twysden col. 1271).
Radulphus de Diceto (_sub
anno_ 1197)
1201 Unprecedented plague of Chronicon de Lanercost (probably
people and murrain of relates to 1203)
animals
1203 Great famine and mortality Annals of Waverley. Annals of
Tewkesbury. Annals of Margan.
Ralph of Coggeshall (_sub
anno_ 1205)
1210 Sickly year throughout Annals of Margan
England
1234 Third year of scarcity; Roger of Wendover. Annals of
sickness Tewkesbury
1247 Pestilence from September Matthew Paris. Higden
to November; dearth and Annales Cambriae (_sub anno_
famine 1248)
1257} Bad harvests; famine and Matthew Paris. Annals of
1258} fever in London and the Tewkesbury. Continuator of M.
1259} country Paris (1259). Rishanger
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