Black Death Rakes

Foreword
Here are some of the Black Death, as found in the book The Black Death by Rosemay Horrox.

First Bristol Rake
In 1348, about the feast of Hallow Peter in fetters the first came to England at Bristol, born by  and sailers, and it lasted in the south lands  Bristol throughout  and all winter. And in the following year, that is to say in 1349, the quild began in the other shires of England and lasted for a whole year with the outcome being that the living could hardly bury the dead.

Thomas Walsingham's Rake
This year there was a great which lasted from midsummer to the following, and it was speedily followed by a  in the east among the Saracens and other unbelievers. It was so great that hardly a tenth of the Saracens were left alive, and they, thinking that the quild had been sent to them for their unbelief, to the Christly. But when they found that the same quild among Christians they went back to their unbelief like dogs to their spew.

In 1349, that is in the 23rd year of the of King Edward III, a great dying of men went forth throughout the world, beginning in the southern and northern lands. Its was so great that hardly half mankind was left alive. Towns once brimming with folk were emptied of their dwellers, and the quild spread so thickly that the living could hardly bury the dead. It was reckoned by a handful of men that barely a tenth of mankind alive. A great dying of followed on the heels of this quild. dwindled and land was lefty untilled for want of who were nowhere to be found. And so much wretchedness followed these ills that afterwards the world could never go back to its former.

Meanwhile, as the quild woded in England, Pope Clement, because of the great sickness, full of the  to all those throughout the kingdom who died truly sorry and after.