Statements about how the plague got to Britain Ships from the continent brought infected rats. Smugglers got infected from ships that had come from Italy. A foreign sailor passed on the disease when his ship stopped in England.

Statement about how the plague got to Britain Ships from the continent brought infected rats. A Year 7 pupil last year

Statement about how the plague got to Britain A foreign sailor passed on the disease when his ship stopped in England. A history professor in 2003

Statement about how the plague got to Britain Smugglers got infected from ships that had come from Italy. A fourteenth-century scholar