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1600 Wheat, 36*. 8</. per qr. (Smith}. 



Land worth twelve years' purchase (Townsend}. 



The river Trent during a heavy flood changed its course 

 near the village of Holme by Newark, through which 

 means the township became situated on the east side of 

 the river, whereas it had previously been on the west side 

 (Lowe). 



1601 Wheat, 34*. 10^. per qr. (Smith). 



At Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire, at the beginning of 

 June, caterpillars were so abundant that a man could not 

 tread without killing twenty or thirty. On this hill they 

 destroyed all the grass (E. Floyd}. 



December 24. Earthquake. 



December 23. Siege of Kinsale in Ireland. Our 

 horsemen did see lamps burn at the points of their spears 

 in the midst of lightning flashes (Tyne Morgan). 



1602 Wheat, 29^. 4^. per qr. (Smith}. 



August 22. A wonderful exhalation of a fiery colour 

 was seen over the city of Chester like a canopy, and was 

 thought by the poor to foretell some evil (Pigott). 



1603 Wheat, 355. 4^. per qr. (Smith}. 

 The plague rages (Lowe). 



1604 Wheat, 30.?. 8</. per qr. (Smith}. 



Export of wheat allowed when not above 26s. %d. on a 

 duty of 25. per qr. ; rye, beans, and peas when not above 

 i5J. ; and barley when not above 14*. on a duty of iSd. 

 per qr. (James I. , i., c. 25). 



Plague still rages (Lowe). 



1605 Wheat, 35*. io</. per qr. (Smith). 

 Plague in London (Lowe}. 



1606 Wheat, 33*. io</. per qr. (Smith). 



Great inundations of the Severn (B. W. E. Journal}. 



January 20. Many people and cattle drowned all 

 along the Severn from Bristol to Gloucester, also terrible 

 floods throughout Wales and the West of England (Rock- 

 hampton Register). 



