Summary: Black Death
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In 1348 a plague called the Black Death reached the British Isles. It caused people to break out in spots and terrible sores and it was very contagious. We now know that it was a mixture of bubonic plague and pneumonic plague but in the middle ages people had all sorts of ideas why this plague came.
Some believed Jews or nobles had poisoned the water; some that it was a punishment from God; some that it had come from earlier earthquakes and some that it was because of the position of the planets.
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