3 et seq.

For a summary of the effects of the Black Plague throughout England, see Green's Short History of the English People, chap.v.For the mortality in the Paris hospitals, see Desmazes, Supplices, Prisons et Graces en France, Paris 1866.

For striking descriptions of plague-stricken cities, see the well-known passages in Thucydides, Boccaccio, De Foe, and, above all, Manzoni's Promessi Sposi.

For examples of averting the plagues by processions, see Leopold Delisle, Etudes sur la Condition de la Classe Agricole, etc., en Normandie au Moyen Age, p.

630; also Fort, chap.xxiii.For the anger of St.Sebastian as a cause of the plague at Rome, and its cessation when a monument had been erected to him, see Paulus Diaconus, cited in Gregorovius, vol.ii.p.