(6o) 



Wool, 8.?. 2d. per tod; fleeces, i Ib. each at Framlingham. 



1304 A considerable rise in the price of wheat during the 

 spring and summer, when it uniformly stood at 6s. 8^., and 

 one parcel was sold at los. Wheat, 5*. 9|^. ; barley, 

 45. i\d. oats, 2s. \\d. ; beans, $s. n%d. ; peas, 35-. io|^. 

 per quarter (Rogers). 



Wool, 9.?. $^d. per tod ; fleeces, i Ib. each at Cuxham. 



1305 Wheat and barley low. Wheat reached its lowest 

 point in April, when it dropt to 4^. ; oats are universally 

 dear ; beans must have been a failure, as they were sold 

 as high as Ss. ; peas and vetches are also dear ; wheat, 

 4s. io|^. ; barley, 3*. iof*/. ; oats, 2s. y\d. ; beans, 6*. $d.\ 

 peas, 4-r. 6d. per quarter. Severe winter. 



Wool, Ss. $\d. per tod ; fleeces, i Ib. 4^ oz. at South- 

 ampton (Rogers). 



In this year there was such a burning heat and such a 

 blight and drought throughout the summer, that the hay 

 failed in most parts of the country, and the beasts of the 

 field died for want, and a double heat oppressed mankind 

 (both while the sun was in Libra as well as when he was 

 in Leo). The consequence was that small pox and 

 disease prostrated both children and young men, and 

 rich and poor, and they were also afflicted with freckles 

 and spots, and a great many young maidens died of the 

 small pox. And there followed after this a winter of 

 extreme cold oppressing mankind much, the frost and 

 snow and ice lasting from December 15 to January 25, 

 and the fish died in the ponds, the birds in the woods, and 

 the cattle in the fields, and many of the birds of heaven 

 were so wasted away that they were caught without any 

 net or snare by the hand of man. But this terrible frost 

 was put an end to by a breeze of the south wind which 

 lasted three days ; and when men thought the winter was 

 past, again the sky was collected into clouds, and the east 

 wind set in and lasted, and the frost returned and lasted 

 from February 13 to the same day in April (M. of W.). 



