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1200 About the month of December there were seen in the 

 province of York five moons, one in the east, the second 

 in the west, the third in the north, the fourth in the 

 south, and the fifth as it were set in the midst of the 

 others, having many stars about it, and went five or six 

 times encompassing the other as it were the space of one 

 hour, and shortly after vanished away (Ifolinshed ). 



The winter after was extremely cold, and in the spring 

 time came a great glutting and continual rain causing the 

 rivers to rise with higher floods than they had been 

 accustomed (Holinshed ) . 



1201 There chanced this year wonderful tempests of thun 

 der, lightning, hail and abundance of rain in such wise 

 that men's minds were greatly astonished therewith, 

 meadows and marsh grounds were quite overflown, 

 bridges broken and borne down, and great quantity of 

 hay and corn lost and carried away and divers men and 

 women drowned (Holinshed ; M. of W.). 



January 9. Earthquake at York, accompanied by a 

 noise. May 22. An earthquake in Somerset and Nor- 

 folk (Mallet). 



1202 Wheat i2s. per quarter (Smith) 



Besides the sore winter, which passed any other that 

 had been heard of in many years before, both for con- 

 tinuance in length and extreme coldness of frosts, there 

 followed griefly tempests with thunder, lightning and 

 storms of rain and hail of the bigness of hens' eggs, 

 wherewith much fruit and great store of corn was per- 

 ished, besides other great hurts done upon houses and 

 young cattle (Holinshed). 



Ale was frozen within houses and cellars and sold by 

 weight. Such a great snow fell also therewith that beasts 

 died in many places in great numbers. Moreover from 

 the twelfthtide till February there was every day very 

 terrible earthquakes (Holinshed}. 



A proclamation published for the lawful assize of bread 



