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Wheat, 56^. per qr. (Smith). 



The sea was frozen from Marseilles to Venice. 



Dearth owing to rain from beginning of May to July 

 25 (Stow). 



Great dearth of corn. Wheat at Salisbury at $s. the 

 bushel (Easton). 



1595 Wheat, 53*. per qr. (Smith). [From this time the 

 quarter in Smith 's prices is nine bushels .] 



The dearth still continuing, wheat advanced to 12^., 

 and barley to 'js. the bushel (Easton). 



Liming of ground was not used but about 1595, some 

 time after the coming in of tobacco (Aubrey). 



1596 Wheat, 80^. per qr. (Smith). 

 A comet (Townsend). 



The rapines committed by the infinite number of 

 wicked, wandering, idle people were intolerable to the 

 poor countrymen, and obliged them to keep a perpetual 

 watch over the sheepfolds, their pastures, their woods, 

 and their cornfields in Somersetshire and other counties 

 (Hume). 



Wheat very dear at Chester : 40*. per bushel ; barley, 

 31.?. ? per qr. (Lowe; T. H. J3.). 



At Oakham Hill, near Westerham, in Kent, about nine 

 acres of ground continued in motion eleven days, some 

 parts sinking into pits, and others rising into hills (Lowe). 



1597 Average price of wheat, 92,?. per qr. It reached 1045. 

 (Smith). 



Wheat sold for ijs. the bushel (Somerset Magazine, 

 vol. xviii.). 



Wheat sold at Salisbury at I2S. the bushel, and barley 

 at 7-f. the bushel, in consequence of the dearth (Easton). 



A famine (Rogers). 



Earthquake in Scotland, July 23 (Mallet). 



1598 Wheat, 56*. Bd. per qr. (Smith). 

 Plague raging at Penrith (Lowe). 



1599 Wheat, 39*. 2d. per qr. (Smith). 



