Palestinians in the 14th Century & The Black Death

In 1592 English historian John Stow (1524/5 - 1605) published The Annales of England. Stow uses the word "Palestinians" when writing about the inhabitants fourteenth century Palestine.

He wrote that the Black Death ("a certayne Pestilence") which killed millions across Europe north Africa and west Asia in the fourteenth century "destroyed the Saracens, Turks, Syrians, Palestinians and the Gretians..."

"There beganne amongst the East Indians and Tartarians a certayne Pestilence, which at length waxed so generall, infecting the middle region of the ayre so greatly, that it destroyed the Sarasins, Turkes, Sirians, Palestinians, and the Gretians, with a wonderfull, or rather incredible death, in so much that those peoples béeing excéedingly dismayde with the terrour thereof, consulted amongst themselues, and thought it good to receyue the Christian Faith and Sacramentes, for they had intelligence that the Christians whiche dwelte on this side the Gréekish Sea, were not so greatly (more than common custome was) troubled wyth sicknesse and mortalitie. At length this terrible slaughter passed ouer into those Countreys which are on this side the Alpes, and from thence to the partes of France which are called esperia, and so by order along intoand Dutchland. And the seauenth yeare after it beganne, it came into England, and first beganne in the Townes and Ports ioyning on the Sea coastes, in Dorsetshire,where, euen as in other Countreys, it made the Countrey quite voyde of inhabitantes, so that there were almost none left alive."

The quote can be found starting in the last paragraph on the left page.