A large number of writers of the beginning of the sixteenth century bear witness to the fact that the pestilence was borne into Germany by _Landsknechte_; e.g. Pastor N. Berler (_Ruffachische Chronik_ of 1510), Heinrich Brennwald (1519), Johann Haselbergk (1533), Valentin Müntzer (1550), _Nuremberg Chronicle_ of 1580.[14] In the year 1495 the pestilence broke out in many places in France and Germany; in Strassburg, for example, the disease was planted by _Landsknechte_ who had served in, and been discharged from, the army of Charles VIII; Hans Schott testifies to this fact in his _Weltlich Leyenbuch_ (Strassburg, 1541). The city of Metz tried in vain to ward off the disease; according to the _Metz Chronicle_, many Burgundians (500 cavalrymen and 700 infantrymen) came to Metz in May 1495, and since the most of them were suffering from _mal de Naples_, they were not allowed to enter the city. But the soldiers infected the women in the vicinity, and the disease was later borne by them into the city, where it prevailed for four years, not beginning to abate until the year 1500.[15] We also have testimony to the fact that the outbreak of the disease in Nördlingen (1495) was caused by the arrival of _Landsknechte_. In a supplementary way we may add here that later wars also caused frequent epidemics of syphilis within narrow confines; instances of this kind are cited by A. Hirsch[16] and H. Schwiening.[17] In August of the year 1486 _English sweating-sickness_ appeared in England for the first time; it broke out among the troops of Henry VII shortly before his victory at Bosworth on August 22, 1486. And when Henry landed at Milford the disease spread, carrying away many victims wherever it went. ‘Strong and well-nourished people were particularly susceptible to it—more so than old men, children, and poor people. From three to nine, sometimes all the inmates of a house caught it, and it gradually spread over half the inhabitants of the town. The first appearance of the disease is said to have caused more devastation in London (where it broke out on September 21), Bedford, and Cambridge, than the sword, which had been ruling for thirty years in a fearful civil war. According to Forest, an incredible number of people died from it, while Thomas Moore also speaks of the dangerous character of this epidemic. In many places a third of the inhabitants are said to have died from it, scarcely one in a hundred of its victims recovering.’[18] The subsequent appearance of the disease, especially the transplantation of it to the continent in the year 1529, was not attributable to warlike events. In the year 1551 it disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared in 1486.