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1264 Corn high. Wax dear (Rogers). 



Wheat, 4$. $d. ; barley, 4^. ; oats, 2S. 2d. ; beans, 

 2s. 6d. ; peas, $s. 4\d. per qr. (Rogers'). 



1265 Corn low. Wheat, $s. 3^. ; oats, is. $d. ; beans and 

 peas, 2s. per qr. (Rogers). 



Wool, Sd. per fleece. 



1266 Great floods and high tides. There was such an 

 infinite number of worms that not only the leaves and 

 fruits of trees, but also flowers and herbs, were con- 

 sumed by them (Holinshed). 



Wheat higher, but below average, barley also. Wheat, 

 4$. 5 \d. per qr. ; barley, 4-r. Wool, 6\d. per fleece (Rogers}. 



1267 Wheat about the same as last year, barley and other 

 grain low. Average weight of a fleece of wool at Stock- 

 ton in Sussex is i Ib. i oz. Wool, from ^d. to 7^. per 

 fleece (Rogers'). 



Wheat, 45-. 5j</. per qr. ; barley, 2s. 5f</.; oats, is. $\d. ; 

 beans, 25. $d. (Rogers). 



1268 Corn sells low. Wheat, $s. $%d. ; barley, 3*. 6</. ; 

 oats, 25. *]\d. ; beans, 4*. 6$d. per qr. (Rogers). 



An exceeding great frost began at St. Andrew's tide, 

 and continued till near Candlemas. The Thames, from the 

 bridge upwards, was so hard frozen that men and beasts 

 passed over. Ships could not enter the Thames, so mer 

 chandise was brought to London from Sandwich and other 

 places by land. In the month of April there chanced a 

 great thunder, tempestuous rain and floods occasioned 

 by the same, very sore and terrible, continuing for the space 

 of fifteen days together. Wool, z\d. per Ib. (Holinshed). 



1269 About the Feast of St. Vedast (Feb. 6th) fell so great 

 abundance of rain that the Thames rose so high as it had 

 not done at any time before to remembrance of men then 

 living, so that the cellars and vaults in London by the 

 waterside were drowned, and much merchandise marred 

 and lost. A comet of a marvellous quantity every day 

 toward the south even about noonday. On the Epiph- 



