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Excessively hot summer (Lowe). 



1293 May 14. Fell a wonderful snow, and therewith blew 

 such an exceeding wind that great harm was done thereby 

 in sundry places in England. This year wheat was sold 

 in London for two shillings a bushel (ffolinshed). 



Wool, 8s. 8d. per tod. Weight of fleece, i Ib. 7 oz. at 

 Staverton (Rogers). 



1294 Wheat high, up to I2S. barley and rye proportionate ; 

 oats not quite so high ; beans very high ; and the yield 

 appears to have been bad in quality as well as quantity ; 

 wool very low; wheat, gs. i\d. ; barley, 6^. if</. ; oats, 

 2s. io\d. beans, 6s. 3^.; peas, js. 8%d. per quarter. 

 Reapers paid i\d. per day (Rogers). 



Wool, 6s. 2\d. per tod ; fleeces, i Ib. 6 oz. at Topham 

 (Rogers). Excessively hot summer (Lowe). 



Wheat, i6s. per quarter (Adam Smith). 



Land at Monkton Farleigh let at 3 pence per acre 

 arable, and 2s. per acre pasture ; is. per acre woodland 

 (Wilts. Mag.). 



A great dearth and scarcity of corn, so that wheat was 

 sold in many places at 305-. per quarter, by reason whereof 

 many poor people died for lack of sustenance. Great 

 dearth and death in Ireland this year, and the two years 

 next ensuing (Holinshed). 



Oxen, 5^-. to 6s. 8d. ; cows and bulls, $s. to IQS. ; 

 calves, 8d. to 25. ; ewes, 6d. ; horses, 155. to 17^. ; lambs, 

 6d. ; porkers, $d. to 6d. each ; wheat, 5^. per quarter ; 

 barley, 2s. 8d. to 4-r. ; oats, is. ^d. per quarter ; beans, 

 2S. to 3-r. per acre ; twelve ploughs at 3^. each ; carts, 25. 

 (Monkton Farley Valuer). 



This year wool was exported from England into Ger- 

 many (M. of W.). 



This year was sufficiently productive both in corn and 

 fruit, but very rainy, so that a great part of the crops of 

 the earth eventually failed by becoming rotten. And 

 owing to the torrents the Thames overflowed its accus- 



