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Wheat, Ss. per qr. (Smith). 



The board of workmen is now reckoned at rates varying 

 from 2$. 6d. to 35. 6d. per week (Rogers). 



1554 Wheat very high; $2s. is quoted late in the season. 

 Wheat, iSs. %\d. ; oats, 6s.; beans, 6s. Sd. \ peas, 



6s. Sd. per qr. (Rogers). 



Wheat, Ss. per qr. (Smith). 



It seems the scarcity this year was local (Rogers). 



Export of wheat prohibited without license when above 

 6s. Sd. per qr. ; rye, 4$. ; barley, 3^. 



Unskilled labour, 6\d. per day (Rogers}. 



1555 General scarcity. Wheat at Cambridge reached 32^. 

 Wheat, 22s.Q\d. ; barley, 2is. 4^.; oats, 6.r. ; beans, iSs. ; 



peas, i6s. 6\d. per qr. (Rogers). 



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



Rain fell in such torrents that Westminster Hall was 

 filled with water, and boats were rowed into King Street 

 from the landing-place ( W. Thornbury). 



September 30. By occasion of great wind and rain 

 that had fallen was such great floods that that morning 

 the king's palace at Westminster and Westminster Hall 

 was overflown with water unto the stair foot. And that 

 morning a wherriman rowed with his boat over Westmin- 

 ster Bridge (ffolinshed). 



1556 A year of famine. Before Christmas the price of 

 wheat reached 32.?. Sd. The lowest figure in the winter 

 was 25^-. 4d. From March to May the price is 40^., then 

 in July it falls to 185-. (Rogers). 



Wheat, 285-. 5j^. ; barley, 15^. 5^.; beans, 18^. 3^. ; 

 peas, 1 6^. id. ; malt, 245. per qr. (Rogers). 



An entry in the Norwich Register declares that wheat 

 reached 53^. ; barley, 32^. ; and oats, i6s. (Rogers). 



A comet is seen at all times of the night, 6th, yth, 8th, 

 9th, and loth of March (Holinshed). 



Great mortality in England (ffolinshed). 



The drought was so great that the springs failed, and 



