Wheat, 38*. %d. per qr. (Smith). 



A drought followed the great flood and continued till 

 August, causing a great scarcity of hay and corn. Hay, 

 305. and 405. a load, and at Leeds 8os. (Lowe). 



Great mortality amongst sheep at Boston (Lowe). 



The snow, which began on January 16, was very deep, 

 so that passengers, both horse and foot, passed over gates, 

 hedges, and walls. It continued daily increasing till 

 March 12 without the sight of any earth either upon hills 

 or valleys, upon which day it began to decrease, and so 

 by little and little consumed till May 28, and then all the 

 drifts were consumed, except one upon Kinder Scout, 

 which lay till Whitsun week ( Youlgrave Register). 



1616 Wheat, 40^. 4^. per qr. (Smith). 

 Great drought (Lowe). 



1617 Wheat, 485-. &d. per qr. (Smith) ; 43^. $d. per qr. of 

 eight bushels. 



1618 Wheat, 46^. 8</. per qr. (Smith). 



The general turn of the age was the conversion of arable 

 land into pasture (Hume). 



A comet (L. Townsend). 



Best wool was about 33^. per tod for many years about 

 this time (Hume). 



1619 Wheat, 35^. $d. per qr. (Smith). 



1620 Wheat, 30.?. 4</. per qr. (Smith). 



There was a frost fair on the Thames ( Walter Thorn- 

 bury). 



A great flood of the Severn, November 29th. There 

 was drowned at Hampton Lode 68 persons as they were 

 going to Bewdly fair (Gloucester Notes and Queries). 



Thirteen days' snow known as the "thirteen days' 

 drift " in Scotland, where on Eskdale Moor out of 20,000 

 sheep only 45 were left alive (Lowe). 



England was never generally so poor since I was born 

 as it is at this present ; inasmuch that all complain they 

 cannot receive their rents. Yet is there plenty of all 



