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1052 Very violent weather ( Wulstaris Annals). 



1053 Here was the great wind on Thomasmas night, which 

 did much harm ; and also all the midwinter was much 

 wind ( Wulstaris Annals}. 



On the night of the feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle 

 there was a wind so strong and violent that it blew down 

 many churches and houses, and broke numberless trees 

 or tore them up by the roots (Roger de Hoveden). 



1054 This year was so much death of cattle as no man 

 remembered many winters before (Stigand}. 



1060 On this year was a great earthquake, on Translation ot 

 St. Martin, July 4 ( Wulstaris Annals). 



1063 The Thames frozen fourteen weeks. 



1064 A blazing star appeared (Holinshed). 



1066 April 24. A blazing star appeared, and continued 

 the space of seven days (Holinshed). A comet appeared 

 during seven days, and shone with extreme brightness 

 (Roger de Hovedeii). 



There was seen over all England such a sign in the 

 heavens as no man ever before saw. Some men said 

 that it was the star cometa, which some men called the 

 haired star; and it first appeared on April 24, and so 

 shone all the seven nights (A. S. C.). 



1067 A tempest (M. of W.). 



1069 An extreme hard winter (Holinshed). 



A famine prevailed to such a degree throughout almost 

 the whole of England, but especially Northumbria and 

 the provinces adjoining, that, compelled by hunger, men 

 ate human flesh, and that of horses, dogs, and cats, and 

 whatever was repulsive to notions of civilization. It was 

 dreadful to behold human corpses rotting in the houses, 

 streets, and high roads, there not being left sufficient to 

 inter them (Roger de Hoveden). 



1070 A great famine (A. S. C). 



1071 A great famine (A. S. C). 



1072 The cold weather was very severe (Roger de Hoveden). 



