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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. FROM A. D. 543 TO 1330. A.d. 543, there was a terrible famine, during which, Pro- copius says, 50,000 labourers died of hunger in the narrow region of Picenum, and a still greater number in the southern provinces. In one place, seventeen travellers were ] lodged; they were murdered and eaten: two women who j were detected in the commission of this atrocious crime were slain. Earthquakes were experienced all over the world. In 544, dysentery, which continued until 548, similating in severity the true plague, committed great ravages in France. A.d. 552, a severe earthquake was experienced at Constantinople, doing much damage. Nine years after, 561, a similar shock was felt at Rome, and also at Constantinople. The year following there was so great a frost that the Danube was frozen over. France, Germany, Italy, and various other countries of Europe,?in fact, the whole inhabited globe,?suffered awfully from pestilence in the years of our Lord 565-66, 583, 587, 589-90-91, 596 to 610: in the course of 580, Antioch was again shaken by a severe earthquake. There prevailed during this period, in the year 589, in Spain, writes St. Gregory, bishop of Tours, a very singular pestilence, the principal I .'C,A '-' symptoms of which were pimples, or pustules, with buboes in the groins: such great havoc did it make, that the houses were as so many tombs, and the town as one vast cemetery : it was supposed that this disease was brought from Marseilles in a vessel, as it had raged there the year previously. St. Gregory, in his ' History of the Franks,' also gives these particulars of this pestilential period: In the fifth year of i i f t ,i. Xi 't3 ffcitVi- i S-'' c Tr r ,f , , i, t, ' : - If :'. ,' 56-Vj,./ .7 - the reign of king Childebert (a....
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