(78) 



Barley and oats dear. Wheat, 5^. 6^d. ; barley, $s. i\d. ; 

 oats, 2s. i^d. ; beans, 25. g^d. ; peas, 3^. 2\d. ; vetches, 



Wool, 6s. nd. per tod. Fleeces, i Ib. each at Farley 

 (Rogers). 



1359 Wheat higher. One sale at Lullington is at Ss., and 

 another gs. ^d. 



Barley cheaper ; butter dear. A great tempest. Fifty- 

 two acres of corn lost at Wolrichston through it. 



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

 3^. ivd. ; peas, 2s. 6%d. ; vetches, 2s. 6^d. (Rogers). 



Wool, JS. $d. per tod. Fleeces, i Ib. each at Ibstone 

 (Rogers). 



Wheat 26.$-. Sd. perqr. (Adam Smith}. 



1360 Wheat slightly higher. 



Wheat, 6s. $%d. ; barley, 4^. 6%d. ; oats, 2S. q\d. ; beans, 

 5^-. 2%d. -, peas, 4s. i^d. per qr. (Rogers). 



Wool, 6.r. $d. per tod (Rogers). 



Men and cattle were destroyed in divers places of this 

 realm by lightning and tempest ; also houses were set on 

 fire and burnt, and strange and wonderful sights seen. 

 Thousands perished in a storm at Chartres, which fell so 

 hideous in the king's host it seemed the world should 

 have ended ; for such unreasonable great stones of hail 

 fell from the sky that men and horses were slain there- 

 with. The storm of tempest, hail, thunder, lightning, 

 and rain was such as the like had never been seen by any 

 of the English people. 



A great death of people, viz. of men, for women were 

 not so much subject thereto (Holinshed). 



1361 Great drought. 



Wheat, $s. $\d. ; barley, 4?. i\d. ; oats, $s. 2\d. ; beans, 

 55. 6d. ; peas, 4^. $%d. ; vetches, 4^. 8|^. (Rogers). 



Wheat, 25. per qr. (Adam Smith). 



On 1 8 calends of February a great and terrible tempest 

 through all England (Somerset Arches. Mag., Vol. XV). 



