It says departed, so i believe it’s return to Germany but i’m not so sure. good-luck on your assignment!
Much like today, the key entertainment for Elizabethan London was: sports, visual entertainment (plays, for the time), and gambling.
Tennis, in particular, became a particularly popular sport during the Elizabethan age while artists like Shakespeare came to prominence with plays that the common masses enjoyed.
Disease, malnutrition and exposure.
I would say it is because they held Jerusalem in captivity