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It so happened that in the month of October in the year of our Lord 1347, around the first of that month, twelve Genoese galleys, fleeing our Lord´s wrath which came down upon them for their misdeeds, put in at the port of the city of Messina. They brought with them a plague that they carried down to the very marrow of their bones, so that if anyone so much as spoke to them, he was infected with a mortal sickness which brought on an immediate death that he could in no way avoid. ... But I, Brother John Clynn, of the order of the Friars Minor of the convent of Kilkenny, have written in this book these notable events which occurred in my time, which I uncovered by my own authority or by a correspondent worthy of belief. And in order that noteworthy deeds may not perish with time and fade from the memory of future generations, I, seeing these many misfortunes and almost the whole world enmeshed in malignity, waiting among the dead for death that yet may come, have set down in writing what I have heard and examined as true. And so that the writing may not perish with the writer, and at the same time the work may not cease with the workman, I bequeath the parchment for continuing the work, if by chance a man, or anyone descended from Adam, should remain behind in the future who can escape this pestilence and continue the work I have begun.

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