Denmark and Sleswig Holstein suffered from the pestilence at the same time as Norway and Sweden. In one chronicle it is called "a most grievous plague of buboes;" in another it is recorded that in the year 1350 "a great plague and sudden death raged both in the case of men and in that of cattle."[116] The accounts of the Bishopric of Roskild, on the Isle of Zealand, about the year 1370, or twenty years after this plague had passed, show the state of universal desolation to which the country was reduced. Lands are described as lying idle and uncultivated, villages and houses desolate and uninhabited. Property that formerly used to bring in four marks, or 48 "pund," now produced only 18 "pund." The same story is repeated on almost every page throughout these long accounts.[117] A few words only need now be said of the desolation [p070] which everywhere throughout Europe was naturally the consequence of the great pestilence. Of North Italy John of Parma writes that "at the time (1348) labourers could not be got, and the harvest remained on the fields, since there was none to gather it in."[118] Twenty years after the pestilence, in 1372, it is said of Mayence that "it is indubitable and notorious that because of the terrible character of the pestilence and mortality which suddenly swept away labourers, copyholders (_parciarios_) and farmers, even the most robust, labourers are to-day few and rare, for which reason many fields remain uncultivated and deserted."[119] Again, in 1359, Henry, Bishop of Constance, impropriated to the monastery of St. Gall, in Switzerland, the Church of Marbach and others, to enable the abbey "to keep up its hospitality, bestow alms, and fulfil its other duties," and he assigns as a reason why it cannot now do this "that by the epidemic or mortality of people, which by permission of God has existed in these parts, the number of farmers and other retainers of both sexes of this abbey, belonging by law of service to the said monastery, which has passed from this life to the Lord (has been so great) that many of the possessions of this monastery have remained, on account of the said death, uncultivated, and no proper return comes from them."[120] FOOTNOTES: [85] Phillippe, _Histoire de la Peste Noire_, p. 54. [86] _Ibid._, pp. 54-56. [87] This was a place of pilgrimage on the Amadour, not far from Toulouse. [88] _Chronicon majus Ægidii Li Muisis_, ii, 280. [89] Lechner, _Das grosse Sterben in Deutschland_, p. 21. [90] Farlati, _Illyricum Sacrum_, iii, p. 324. [91] Lechner, _ut sup._, p. 22. [92] _Ibid._ [93] _Ibid._, p. 23. [94] _Annales Matscenses_ in _Mon. Germ._, ix, 829. [95] _Annales Mellicenses_, _Ibid._, p. 313. [96] _Continuatio Novimontensis_, _Ibid._, p. 675. [97] _Chronicon_, in Muratori, xvi, 361. He places the event under the year 1347. [98] _Ibid._, 298. [99] Lechner, _ut sup._, p. 27. [100] _Ibid._ [101] _Annales Engelbergenses_, in _Mon. Germ._, xvii, 281.