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Fatal Pestilence In The Air, In The Reign Of Henry Iii.
warde , the trees had not been able to have borne the same . The grasse was so burned up in pastures and meadowes , that if a . man took up some of it in his hands , and rubbed the same never so little , it straight fell to pouider , and so cattle were readie to starve for lacke of meate : and because of the exceeding hote nightes , there was such an abundaunce of fleas , flies , and gnattes , that people were vexedand brought in case to be weary of their lives .
, And herewith chaunced many diseases , as sweates , agues , and others . And in the harvest tyme there fell a great death or murreyn amongst cattel , and specially in Norfolke , in the felines , and other partes of the south . The infection was such , that dogs and ravens feeding on the dead carraynes , swelled straight wayes and dyed , so that the people durst eate no biefleast the flesh happely miht be infected .
, g Also this was noted , not without great wonder , that young heyfers and bullocke . s followed themylche ki tie , and as it had been calves sucked the same kine . Also apple-trees and peare-trees , now ' after the tyme of yeelding their ripe fruite , began againe to blossome , asif it had beene in Aprill . The cause of the death of cattel was thought to come hereof . After so great a drought , which continued from Aprill to July , when
there followed plentie of raine , the earth began to y eeide her en ' crease most plentcously , though not so wholesome as usual : and the cattel , which before were liunger-starven , fed now so greedily of tins new grasse , sprung up in an undue season , that they were suddenly puffed up with fieshe , and such unnatural humours , as bredde infections amongst them , whereof they dyed . '
DURING the course of that war , which was terminated by the peace of Utrecht , the French supplied their armies in Italy , chiefly by remittances byway of Geneva ; where some eminent merchants had undertaken the affair , and used frequently to send very large s'ims in specie , passing along the side of ths lake , thiough Switzerland , to the republic of the Valais , from whence they crossed over
Mount Sampion , and so at once got into the duchy of Milan . As thsse countries are perfectly free from all danger of robbers , and the Chablais , and those parts of Savoy which bordered ou the lake and the Valais , were in the hands of the French , they were under no sort of apprehension of aity danger ; and the escort that guarded the money was very small and weak . However , some . Savoyard
gentlemen , urged to it by their necessities ( their country being totally ruined , and in the hands ' of the French ) and who , besides , by means of their frequent intercourse with Geneva , were extremel y well acquainted with the manner in which , and the times when , these convoys of money sjt out , laid a scheme for seizing one of them . They first provided themselves with commissions from the
Duke of Savoy , Victor Amadeus , afterwards King of Sardinia , their soverei gn , as officers sent on party ; after which , having informed themselves exactly of the time of the convo \' s departure from Geneva , they privately assembled at Thonon and Evian , towns on the
REMARKABLE ROBBER !' .
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Fatal Pestilence In The Air, In The Reign Of Henry Iii.
warde , the trees had not been able to have borne the same . The grasse was so burned up in pastures and meadowes , that if a . man took up some of it in his hands , and rubbed the same never so little , it straight fell to pouider , and so cattle were readie to starve for lacke of meate : and because of the exceeding hote nightes , there was such an abundaunce of fleas , flies , and gnattes , that people were vexedand brought in case to be weary of their lives .
, And herewith chaunced many diseases , as sweates , agues , and others . And in the harvest tyme there fell a great death or murreyn amongst cattel , and specially in Norfolke , in the felines , and other partes of the south . The infection was such , that dogs and ravens feeding on the dead carraynes , swelled straight wayes and dyed , so that the people durst eate no biefleast the flesh happely miht be infected .
, g Also this was noted , not without great wonder , that young heyfers and bullocke . s followed themylche ki tie , and as it had been calves sucked the same kine . Also apple-trees and peare-trees , now ' after the tyme of yeelding their ripe fruite , began againe to blossome , asif it had beene in Aprill . The cause of the death of cattel was thought to come hereof . After so great a drought , which continued from Aprill to July , when
there followed plentie of raine , the earth began to y eeide her en ' crease most plentcously , though not so wholesome as usual : and the cattel , which before were liunger-starven , fed now so greedily of tins new grasse , sprung up in an undue season , that they were suddenly puffed up with fieshe , and such unnatural humours , as bredde infections amongst them , whereof they dyed . '
DURING the course of that war , which was terminated by the peace of Utrecht , the French supplied their armies in Italy , chiefly by remittances byway of Geneva ; where some eminent merchants had undertaken the affair , and used frequently to send very large s'ims in specie , passing along the side of ths lake , thiough Switzerland , to the republic of the Valais , from whence they crossed over
Mount Sampion , and so at once got into the duchy of Milan . As thsse countries are perfectly free from all danger of robbers , and the Chablais , and those parts of Savoy which bordered ou the lake and the Valais , were in the hands of the French , they were under no sort of apprehension of aity danger ; and the escort that guarded the money was very small and weak . However , some . Savoyard
gentlemen , urged to it by their necessities ( their country being totally ruined , and in the hands ' of the French ) and who , besides , by means of their frequent intercourse with Geneva , were extremel y well acquainted with the manner in which , and the times when , these convoys of money sjt out , laid a scheme for seizing one of them . They first provided themselves with commissions from the
Duke of Savoy , Victor Amadeus , afterwards King of Sardinia , their soverei gn , as officers sent on party ; after which , having informed themselves exactly of the time of the convo \' s departure from Geneva , they privately assembled at Thonon and Evian , towns on the
REMARKABLE ROBBER !' .