_Hollinshed_ records[81] in like Manner the Fact of the Pestilence, and the Desolation caused by it throughout _Europe_. Of _London_ he says that the Death “had bin so great and vehement within that Citie, that over and beside the Bodies buried in other accustomed burieng Places, (which for their infinit Number cannot be reduced into Account), there were buried that Yeare” [viz. 1350] “dailie, from Candlemasse till Easter, in the Charterhouse Yard of _London_, more than two hundred dead Corpses.” He also notices the Fact of the Children wanting Teeth, but he makes the Defect to be four, not two “cheke Teeth,” as _Caxton’s_ Chronicle stated[82]: “¶ This Yeare in August died _Philip de Valois_ the French King. Here is to be noted, that all those that were borne after the Beginning of that great Mortalitie whereof ye have heard, wanted foure cheke Teeth (when they came to the time of Growth) of those 32 which the People before that Time commonlie vsed to have, so that they had but 28.” Our Author, it will be observed, differs from _Hollinshed_ in making the Defect “eight grete Teeth,” and in this he has the Authority of the second Continuator of the Chronicle of _William de Nangis_, published by _D’Achery_ in his _Spicilegium_[83]; a Narrative which apparently has been the Source from which many of our English Chroniclers have borrowed. It contains a very minute History of this memorable Pestilence, with several curious Particulars not mentioned by other Writers. The Author endeavours to account for the Plague by supposing the Explosion of a Comet, whose sudden Evaporation, he suggests, may have disseminated in the Atmosphere pestilential Vapours. He tells us also that the Jews were suspected of having poisoned the Fountains, and that many of them were in consequence put to Death, and burnt, in various Places. The circumstance of the Children born with a smaller Number of Teeth is thus recorded[84]:—