The Chronicles of Enguerrand De Monstrelet

Chapter III

Great pardons1 granted at Rome



During this year, the court of Rome granted many pardons, wither an infinity of persons went from all parts of Christendom to receive them. A universal mortality took place about this time, which caused the death of multitudes; and in the number, very many of the pilgrims suffered from it at Rome.

Notes:
1 - This was the year of the jubilee. The plague raged at Rome, where, as Bouninsegni informs us, seven or eight hundred persons died daily. Few of the pilgrims returned. Many were murdered by the pope's soldiers, - a universal confusion prevailing at that time throughout Italy.

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