| [72] According to _Reimar 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. Compare Chronik | | des Franciskaner Lesemeisters _Detmar_, nach der Urschrift und mit | | Ergänzungen aus anderen Chroniken herausgeg. published by F. H. | | _Grautoff_. Hamburg, 1829, 30. 8. P. I. p. 269. App. 471. | | | | [73] _Förstemann_, Versuch einer Geschichte der christlichen | | Geisslergesellschaften, in _Staüdlin’s_ und _Tzschirner’s_, Archiv | | für alte und neue Kirchengeschichte, Vol. III. 1817. | | | | [74] Limburg Chronicle, pub. by _C. D. Vogel_. Marburg, 1828. 8vo. | | p. 14. | | | | [75] _Barnes_, loc. cit. | | | | [76] Ibid. | | | | [77] _Spangenberg_. fol. 339. a. Grawsam Sterben vieler faulen | | Troppfen. Many lazy monks died a cruel death. | | | | [78] _Vitoduran_, loc. cit. | | | | [79] _Becker_, loc. cit. | | | | [80] _Hainr._ _Rebdorf._ p. 630. | | | | [81] _Guillelm. de Nang._ loc. cit. | | |