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1567 Prices lower, but higher at Cambridge than in the 

 midland counties. 



Wheat, iij-. id. barley, IDS. g\d.- } oats, $s. io</. ; 

 peas, i2s. 2\d.' } malt, los. per qr. (Rogers). 



Unskilled labour, 8d. per day ; mason, i zd. (Rogers). 



1568 Wheat at Cambridge, i2s. g\d. ; at Oxford, 75. g\d. 

 Wheat, us. $\d. ; barley, us. oats, 6s. 6\d.; peas, 



$s. gd. per qr. (Rogers). 



Beef sold at 2s. per stone of 14 Ib. (Rogers). 



Horses up to 9 los. each (Rogers). 



March 18. Through vehement rage and tempest of 

 winds many vessels on the Thames were sunk and 

 destroyed. 



After a dry summer followed an extreme sharp winter, 

 namely the latter part thereof with such scarcity of fodder 

 and hay that in divers places the same was sold by 

 weight as in Yorkshire ; and in the peak of Derbyshire, 

 where a stone of hay was sold for fivepence. There 

 followed also a great death of cattle ; namely, of horses 

 and sheep (Holinshed). 



1569 Wheat still dearer at Cambridge than at Oxford ; at 

 the former it averages i2s. 8J*/., and at the latter 'js. g\d. 



Wheat, us. 9\d.; oats, 6s. 2\d. ; peas, Ss. >j\d. ; malt, 

 9s. 8d per qr. (Rogers). 



Beef sold at is. 5! //. per 14 Ib. (Rogers). 



October 30. A great gale at Ashley, Nottinghamshire, 

 only sixty yards broad, and only lasting seven minutes, but 

 destroying everything in its path (J. Templar in Lowe). 



1570 Wheat, 9.?. lod. ; oats, 5^. 5^.; peas, Ss. Sd. -, malt, 

 75. 2\d. per qr. (Rogers). 



Wool, i6s. per tod (Rogers). 

 Beef, is. $d. per stone (Rogers). 



Unskilled labour, 6\d. per day; carpenter, io\d. (Rogers). 

 Butter, $d. per Ib. ; sugar, i$d. per Ib. ( Wilts Mag., i., 

 346). 



October 5. A terrible tempest of wind and rain both 



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