Note 88 — XXIII.—To Farel.
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The pestilence, seven times in the course of this century, made great havoc in the city of Basle. The plague of 1564 carried off a third part of the population of the town and suburbs.—See Jean de Muller, Hist. de la Confédération Suisse, tom. xi. passim, and the Diary of the Physician Platerus, MS. Library of Basle.