Note 228 — Chapter IV · THE FOURTH VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1528, 1529.

“Moreover in the year 1529, about St. James’s day, Almighty God sent a terrible disease upon the city of Hamburgh; it was the Sweating Sickness, which showed itself in a different manner, and began when Captain Hermann Evers came from England on St. James’s day with many young companions, of whom, in the course of two days, twelve died of this disease, which was unknown as well in Hamburgh as in other countries, so that the oldest person did not recollect to have seen a similar disease.” An unknown eye-witness, quoted in Staphorst, Part II. Vol. I. p. 83. Another person expresses himself to the same effect, p. 85. “The disease had its origin in England, for the people were there attacked in the street when they came on shore, and those who came in contact with them, many of whom were of the lower class, took it.” Notices of uncertain date to be found in Adelung, at p. 77. Steltzner, Part II. p. 219. In the abbrev. Hamb. Chron. p. 45, and elsewhere.