In Florence there died of the Black Plague 60,000[61] In Venice 100,000[62] In Marseilles, in one month 16,000[63] In Siena 70,000[64] In Paris 50,000[65] In St. Denys 14,000[66] In Avignon 60,000[67] In Strasburg 16,000[68] In Lübeck 9,000[69] In Basle 14,000 In Erfurt, at least 16,000 In Weimar 5,000[70] In Limburg 2,500[71] In London, at least 100,000[72] In Norwich 51,100[73] To which may be added-- Franciscan Friars in Germany 124,434[74] Minorites in Italy 30,000[75] [61] _Jno. Trithem_ Annal. Hirsaugiens. Monast. St. Gall. Hirsaug. 1690. fol. 1. T. II. p. 296. According to _Boccacio_, Loc. cit. 100,000; according to _Matt. Villani_, Loc. cit. p. 14. three out of five. [62] _Odoric Raynald_ Annal. ecclesiastic. Colon. Agripp. 1691. fol. Vol. XVI. p. 280. [63] _Vitoduran_ Chronic, in _Füssli_. Loc. cit. [64] _Tromby_, Storia de _S. Brunone_ e dell’ ordine Cartusiano. Vol. VI. L. VIII. p. 235. Napol. 1777. fol. [65] _Barnes_ p. 435. [66] Ditto. [67] _Baluz._ Vitae Papar. Avenionens. Paris 1693–4. Vol. I. p. 316. According to _Rebdorf_ in _Freher_. Loc. cit. at the worst period, 500 daily. [68] _Königshoven._ Loc. cit. [69] According to _Reimer Kork_, from Easter to Michaelmas 1350, 80 to 90,000; among whom were eleven members of the senate, and bishop John IV. Vid. _John Rud. Becker_, Circumstantial History of the Imper. and free city of Lübeck. Lübeck: 1782, 84, 1805. 3 Vols. 4. Vol. I. p. 269. 71. Although Lübeck was then in its most flourishing state, yet this account, which agrees with that of _Paul Lange_, is certainly exaggerated. (Chronic. Citizense, in _I. Pistorius_, Rerum Germanic. Scriptores aliquot insignes, cur. _Struve_ Ratisb. 1626. fol. p. 1214.) We have, therefore, chosen the lower estimate of an anonym. writer. Chronic. Sclavic. by _Erpold Lindenbrog_. Scriptores rerum Germanic. Septentrional, vicinorumque populor. diversi, Francof. 1630. fol. p. 225, and _Spangenberg_. Loc. cit. with whom again the assurance of the two authors, that on the 10th August, 1350, 15 or 1700, (according to _Becker_ 2500) persons had died, does not coincide. See Chronik des Franciskaner Lesemeisters _Detmar_, nach der Urschrift und mit Ergänzugen aus anderen Chroniken, published by I. H. Grautoff. Hamburg: 1829,--30. 8. P. I. p. 269. App. 471. [70] _Förstemann_, Versuch einer Geschichte der christlichen Geisslergesellschaften, in _Staudlins_ und _Izschirner’s_, Archiv für alte und neue Kirchengeschichte, Vol. III. 1817.