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Wheat, 45. i if*/.; barley, 3^. 6f^. ; oats, 2S. 

 vetches, 2s. ^d. (Rogers). 



Wool, 9-r. zd. per tod (Rogers}. 



Great inundation at Winchelsea (Lowe). 



In February eight semicircles were seen around the sun 

 joined back to back (M. of W.). 



1281 Wheat rather high, barley cheap, beans high. 

 Wheat, 6s. of^/. ; barley, 3^. 5^. ; oats, 2s. $d.\ beans, 



5-r. of d. ; peas, 4-r. ^\d. per qr. Wool, ^d. per Ib. ; weight 

 of fleece, i Ib. 3 J oz. at Maldon (Rogers]. 



Drought so great that men passed over the Thames 

 dryshod between Westminster and Lambeth, and over the 

 Medway between Strood and Rochester (Stow). 



The Thames frozen and used as a highway, and on the 

 breaking up of the ice, five of the arches of Old London 

 bridge were carried away (M. of W.). 



Frost at Christmas with great snow. Rochester and 

 other bridges wholly destroyed at the same time as 

 London bridge was injured (Stow). 



From the time of the Nativity of the Lord almost up 

 to the Feast of the Purification there was such an abund- 

 ance of frost, cold, and snow as the oldest and most 

 decrepit people at that time alive in England had never 

 felt before (M. of W.). 



1282 Wheat high, barley and oats low. Great floods. 

 Wheat, 5^. iij^. ; barley, 4*. i \d. oats, 2s. i\d. 



beans, 4$. i\d. ; peas, 3.?. 2\d. per qr. Wool, 8*. 9^. per 

 tod. Fleeces, 2 Ibs. f oz. at Harewood (Rogers'). 



Great snow in Austria (Chambers}. 



Great flood and gale at Boston. The monastery of 

 Spalding and many churches destroyed. At Yarmouth, 

 Donwich, and Ipswich an intolerable multitude of men, 

 women, and children overwhelmed by the waters, espe- 

 cially at Boston (Allen's Lincoln). 



1283 Wheat reaches 9-r. ^d. per qr. ; barley cheap, oats 

 high, peas dear. Wheat, 6s. \i\d. barley, 45. 



