Of like dampes, I heard in the north coũtry in cole pits, wherby the laboring mẽ be streight killed, except before the houre of coming therof (which thei know by y^e flame of their cãdle) thei auoid the groũd. Thirdly by putrefactiõ or rot in groũdes aftre great flouddes, in carions, & in dead men. After great fluddes, as happened in y^e time of Gallien thẽperor at rome, in _Achaia_ & _Libia_, wher the seas sodeinly did ouerflow y^e cities nigh to y^t same. And in the xi. yeare of _Pelagius_, when al the flouddes throughe al Italye didde rage, but chieflye _Tibris_ at Rome, whiche in many places was as highe as the walles of the citie. In cariõs or dead bodies, as fortuned here in Englande vpon the sea banckes in the tyme of King Alured, or Alfrede; (as some Chroniclers write) but in the time of king Ethelred after Sabellicus, by occasion of drowned Locustes cast vp by the Sea, which by a wynde were driuen oute of Fraunce thether. This locust is a flie in bignes of a mãnes thumbe, in colour broune, in shape somewhat like a greshopper, hauing vi. fiete, so many wynges, two tiethe, & an hedde like a horse, and therfore called in Italy _Caualleto_, where ouer y^e city of _Padoa_, in the yeare m.d.xlij. (as I remembre,) I, with manye more did see a swarme of theim, whose passage ouer the citie, did laste two hours, in breadth inestimable to euery man there. Here by example to note infection by deadde menne in Warres, either in rotting aboue the ground, as chaunced in Athenes by theim of Ethiopia, or els in beyng buried ouerly (15) as happened at Bulloigne, in the yere M.D.xlv. the yeare aftre king Henrye theight had conquered the same, or by long continuance of an hoste in one place, it is more playne by dayly experience, then it neadeth to be shewed. Therefore I wil now go to the fourth especial cause of infectiõ, the pent aier, breaking out of the ground in yearthquakes, as chaunced at Uenice in the first yeare of _Andrea Dandulo_, then Duke, the xxiiij. day of Januarye, and xx. hour after their computacion. By which infectiõ mani died, & many were borne before their time. The v. cause is close, & vnstirred aire, & therfore putrified or corrupt, out of old welles, holes in y^t groũd made for grain, wherof many I did se in & about _Pesaro_ in Italy, by openĩg thẽ aftre a great space, as both those coũtrimẽ do cõfesse, & also by exãple is declared, for y^e manye in openĩg thẽ vnwarely be killed. Out of caues, & tõbes also, as chaũced first in the country of _Babilonia_, proceding aftre into Grece, and so to Rome, by occasion that y^e souldiers of themperour _Marcus Antoninus_, vpon hope of money, brake up a golden coffine of _Auidius Cassius_, spiẽg a litle hole therin, in the tẽple of _Apollo_ in _Seleucia_, as _Ammianus Marcellinus_ writeth. To these mai be ioyned the particular causes of infectiõ, which I cal the accidentes of the place, augmenting thesame. As nigh to dwelling places, merishe &