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1043 Corn was so dear over all England as no man 

 remembered, and so great famine (Stigantf). 



1044 Famine was so great that the " sester" of wheat went 

 to sixty pence, and even further (A. S. C.). 



1045 After Candlemas the winter more severe than ever 

 remembered, with frost, snow, and all sorts of bad 

 weather ; so was the death of men and cattle, fowls and 

 fish, through much cold and hunger (Sttgand). 



1046 Great pestilence over all England this year (Stigand). 



1047 There fell a marvellous great snow, covering the 

 ground from the beginning of January until the seven- 

 teenth day of March. Besides this, there happened the 

 same year such tempests and lightnings, that the corn 

 upon the earth was burnt up and blasted, by reason whereof 

 there followed a great dearth in England, and also death 

 of men and cattle (Holinshed). 



There was over all England a very great mortality this 

 year (A. S. C.}. 



The snow fell in the west of England in such vast 

 quantities that it even broke down the woods {Roger de 

 JFfoveden). 



1048 Here was the severe winter ( Wulstarts Annals]. A 

 great earthquake widely throughout England (A. S. C.). 



On the calends of May, being the Lord's Day, there 

 was a great earthquake at Worcester and at many other 

 places. A mortality among men and animals prevailed 

 throughout many of the provinces of England ; and fires 

 in the air, commonly called woodland fires, destroyed 

 towns and crops of standing corn in the province of 

 Derby, and some other provinces (Roger de Hovederi}. 



1049 May i. Earthquake at Worcester, Wick, and at Derby 

 and elsewhere ; also a great mortality among men, and 

 a murrain among cattle ; and the wild fire also did much 

 evil in Derbyshire and elsewhere (A. S. C.). 



A violent storm (Roger de Hoveden\ 

 1051 Dreadful famine in Lincolnshire (Lowe). 



