Dreadful famine from excessive rains (F. A.). 



Wheat, 5*. $%d. ; barley, 3^. g^d.; oats, 2s. 2\d.\ beans, 

 3*. 4j d. ; peas, 25. ioj</. ; vetches, 2J-. nf;/. (Rogers). 



Wool, 8y. 4</. per tod ; weight of fleece at Bretham i Ib. 

 15 oz. 



This year there fell a great abundance of rain, and 

 thereupon ensued murrain of beasts ; also corn so failed 

 this year that a quarter of wheat was sold for forty shil- 

 lings (Holinshed). 



1336 Wheat, 4*. nd. barley, 35. 8|*/. ; oats, 2*. i\d. 

 beans, 2s. iod. ; peas, $s. id. ; vetches, 25. io^d. per qr. 

 (Rogers). 



Wool, 8s. $d. per tod ; fleeces, i Ib. 14 oz. at Gamlin- 

 gay (Rogers}. 



Wheat, 2s. per qr. (Smith). 



The average produce of land at Cuxham for four years 

 past is a little over two quarters of wheat per acre, a frac- 

 tion over one quarter of barley, more than i| qr. of oats, 

 and nearly i\ qr. of peas (Rogers). 



1337 Abundant harvest. Great flood at Staundon some 

 time this year. 



Wheat, $s. ^d. ; barley, 2s. 7^. ; oats, is. *]\d. ; beans, 

 3-f. 4</. ; peas, 2 s. of//, per qr. (Rogers). 



Wool, 5 s. nd. per tod; fleeces, i Ib. 6J oz. at Wehve 

 (Rogers). 



At London wheat was sold for 2S. per qr., a fat ox for 

 6s. 8d., a fat sheep for sixpence or eightpence, half a dozen 

 pigeons for one penny, a fat goose for twopence, a pig for 

 one penny, and all other victuals after the like rate (Holin- 

 shed). 



A comet with long and terrible streams passing from it 

 (Holmshed). 



1338 More abundant harvest than any since 1287. Wheat 

 in February down to 2s. 6d. per qr. Prices rises about 

 the middle of May in anticipation of a coming dearth 

 (Of course this refers to 1339 ; T. H. B.). 



