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spring commenced, suggesting that the prospects of the 

 next harvest were uninterruptedly good. Barley com- 

 paratively high, oats cheap. 



Wheat, 2s. io\d. ; barley, 2s. 6\d. ; oats, is. $^d. ; 

 beans, is. g^d. ; peas, is. ii\d. per qr. (Rogers). 



Was such plenty of grain that wheat was sold in some 

 places for twenty pence a quarter, and in some places for 

 sixteen pence, and peas for twelve pence a quarter. In 

 the winter of this year great floods, by reason of the ex- 

 ceeding abundance of rain that fell, and the sea along 

 the north-east coasts from Humber to Yarmouth brake 

 into the land, overflowing the same by the space of three 

 or four leagues in breadth, overthrowing buildings and 

 drowning up men and cattle. This chanced on the Feast 

 of the Circumcision of our Lord, and in December it 

 brake out again in Norfolk and Suffolk where it did much 

 harm, namely about Yarmouth (Holinshed ; M. of W.). 



Wheat, 3-f. ^d. per qr. (Smith). 



Wool, Ss. id. per tod. Weight of fleece, i Ib. 8 oz. at 

 Kenet. 



1288 Wheat slightly higher, barley lower, oats very cheap. 

 Wheat, 3-r. of </. ; barley, 2s. $\d. ; oats, is. 6%d. ; beans, 



2s. 2\d. ; peas, 2S. of;/, per qr. (Rogers). 



Scab very general in sheep (Rogers). 



First mention of it this year. Wool, gs. %d. per tod. 

 Weight of fleece, i Ib. 2^ oz. at Pevensey (Rogers). 



Wheat varies from &d. per qr. to gs. ^d. ; average, $s. o\d. 

 (Smith). 



The summer this year exceeded in heat, so that men 

 through the intemperate excess thereof died in divers 

 places (Holinshed). 



1289 Wheat much higher, but below the average ; barley 

 and oats low. Wheat, 4$. $^d. ; barley, 3^. 2\d. ; oats, 

 is. i \\d. ; beans, 2S. 6f dl ; peas, 2s. 6\d. per qr. (Rogers). 



Wool, 9-r. 6d. per tod ; weight of fleece, i Ib. 8 oz. at 

 Ditchingham {Rogers). 



