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Wheat, 15^. nd. ; oats, 6*. $d. ; peas, los. g\d. ; malt, 

 i os. i of*/, per qr. (Rogers). 



Wool, 2os. per tod (Rogers}. 



February 13. Aurora borealis brilliant (Lowe). 



September 28. Aurora borealis (Lowe). 



February 24. After a flood which was not great at 

 Tewkesbury, there came down the Severn great numbers 

 of flies and beetles a foot thick above the water. The 

 mills thereabout were dammed up with them for the space 

 of four days after, and then were cleansed by digging 

 them out with shovels. From whence they came is yet 

 unknown, but the day was cold and a hard frost. Feb- 

 ruary 26. Between four and six p.m., great earthquakes in 

 York, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristowe, Hereford, and in 

 the countries about, which caused the people to run out 

 of their houses (Holinshed). 



Great, pestilence in Ireland (Holinshed). 



At London the tide in the Thames ebbed and flowed 

 twice within an hour (Mallet). 



1576 Price of^wheat rises greatly. 



Wheat, 22s. 2\d. oats, $s. 6\d. \ beans, 13^. i\d. ; peas, 

 us. o\d. } malt, 14.?. i\d. (Rogers). 



March 17. Through a strange tempest near to Rich- 

 mond, not only cottages, trees, barns, and haystacks, but 

 also the most part of the church called Patrike Brumton 

 was overthrown, with most strange sights in the air both 

 fearful and terrible (Holinshed). 



1577 Wheat at Cambridge, 17 s. 6\d. ; Oxford, igs. lod. ; 

 Faversham, 2 6s. 6\d. 



Wheat, 2os. 2d.- } oats, 6*. Sd. ; beans, us. \ peas, 

 10^. $\d. ; malt, 15*. per qr. (Rogers). 



Wool, 14^. per tod (Rogers). 



On Sunday, August 4th, between nine and ten o'clock 

 in the forenoon, whilst the minister was reading the 

 second lesson in the parish church of Bliborough, a town 

 in Suffolk, a strange and terrible tempest of ligl tning and 



