This year, by confession of all men, was of all other, for other diseases, most free and healthful. If any man were sick before, his disease turned to this;

if not, yet suddenly, without any apparent cause preceding and being in perfect health, they were taken first with an extreme ache in their heads, redness and inflammation of the eyes; and then inwardly, their throats and tongues grew presently bloody and their breath noisome and unsavoury.