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must remember, also, that we do not gather much from mere numbers
without an intimate knowledge of the state of society. We will
therefore confine ourselves to exhibiting some of the more
credible accounts relative to European cities.
In Florence there died of the Black Plague--60,000
In Venice--100,000
In Marseilles, in one month--16,000
In Siena--70,000
In Paris--50,000
In St. Denys--14,000
In Avignon--60,000
In Strasburg--16,000
In Lubeck--9,000
In Basle--14,000
In Erfurt, at least--16,000
In Weimar--5,000
In Limburg--2,500
In London, at least--100,000
In Norwich--51,100
To which may be added -
Franciscan Friars in German--124,434
Minorites in Italy--30,000
This short catalogue might, by a laborious and uncertain
calculation, deduced from other sources, be easily further
multiplied, but would still fail to give a true picture of the
depopulation which took place. Lubeck, at that time the Venice of
the North, which could no longer contain the multitudes that
flocked to it, was thrown into such consternation on the eruption
of the plague, that the citizens destroyed themselves as if in
frenzy.
Merchants whose earnings and possessions were unbounded, coldly
and willingly renounced their earthly goods.
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