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By the breaking of the bank at Burnham some thirty 

 villages were overflowed and their cattle destroyed, be- 

 sides men, women, and children. Suddenly, without 

 notice, the country, for twenty miles by five, was flooded 

 to the depth of eleven or twelve feet, the deepest part 

 being at Kingston Seymour. Also great overflowings of 

 waters in Norfolk, Monmouth, Glamorgan, Carmarthen, 

 etc.^Som. Mag., vol. xxiv.). 



1607 QVheat, 36*. %d. per qr. (Smith). 

 A comet (Townsend). 



A most extreme hot summer, insomuch that many died 

 with heat. A wonderful frost followed by a dearth 

 (Gloucester Notes and Queries). 



In London fires on the ice on the Thames in the first 

 week in December (Stow). 



A great frost and snow, the which began the 5th day of 

 December and so continued until the i4th day of Feb- 

 ruary, 1608, all which time all our rivers were frozen, and 

 in most parts that they would bear horse and man loaded 

 and carts loaden ; the most part of mills were so frozen 

 up that they could not grind any corn but with much ado, 

 and did hurt to many things as wheat, grass, and herbs 

 ( Whittock). 



1608 Wheat, 56^. %d. per qr. (Smith). 

 Great scarcity of corn (Easton). 



Frost very severe in London in January. Thames 

 frozen over. 



f Wheat rose in Windsor market from 36^. to 56^. per 

 \qr. (Lowe). 



"^February 19. The Thames ebbed and flowed twice at 

 noon (Howes). 



A tremendous hurricane did incalculable mischief at 

 Beverley in Yorkshire ( WhittocKs York). 



November 9. Earthquake at Aberdeen (Lowe). 



1609 Wheat, 505-. per qr., nine bushels (Smith). 



January 19. An extraordinary flux and reflux of the 



