But one third of the population of the principalities of Pskof and of Novgorod were left living.

At London fifty thousand were interred in a single cemetery.
The disease commenced with swellings on the fleshy parts of the body, a violent spitting of blood ensued, which was followed by death the second or third day.
It is impossible, according to the ancient annalists, to imagine a spectacle so terrible.

Young and old, fathers and children, were buried in the same grave.

Entire families disappeared in a day.

Each curate found, every morning, thirty dead bodies, often more, in his church.
Greedy men at first offered their services to the dying, hoping to obtain their estates, but when it was found that the disease was communicated by touch, even the most wealthy could obtain no aid.