the plague has been responsible for more than 200 million deaths throughout history, dating as far back as 3,800 years ago, ...

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William, their third child, was born in April of 1564, and he lived, but then their sixth child, Anne, died in 1579, when just seven years old. The plague took three of William’s siblings.