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are nine bushels, therefore the apparent discrepancy 

 between his prices and others (T. H. B.\ 



Labourers' wages, lod. per day (F. A.). 



A comet (Townsend). 



1648 Wheat, 85*. per qr. (Smith). 

 Exceedingly wet summer (Ellis). 

 Great scarcity of grain (Hatcher). 

 Wheat, 75*. 6d. per qr. (Tovey). 

 A deare yeare of corne (Aubrey). 



This was a most exceeding wet year, neither frost nor 

 snow all the winter for more than six days in all. Cattle 

 died everywhere of a murrain (Evelyn). 



1649 Wheat, Bos. per qr. (Smith). 

 Wheat, jis. id. per qr. (Tovey). 

 A famine year (Rogers). 



January 22. Now was the Thames frozen over, and 

 horrid tempests of wind. April 29. I saw in London 

 an huge ox bred in Kent, seventeen foot in length, and 

 much higher than I could reach (Evelyn). 



June 2 7. The sun so scorched my face that it made 

 the skin peel off (Evelyn}. 



1650 Wheat, 76*. %d. per qr. (Smith). 

 Wheat, 68.5-. id. per qr. (Tovey). 



1651 Wheat, 73^ 4^. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 65 s. zd. per qr. (Tovey). 



1652 Wheat, 495. 6d. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 44s. per qr. ( Tovey). 



A comet (Townsend). 



January. An exceeding hard frost of long duration. 



April 29 was that celebrated eclipse of the sun, so 

 much threatened by the astrologers, and which had so 

 exceedingly alarmed the whole nation, that hardly any one 

 would work nor stir out of their houses (Evelyn). 



May 25. After drought of near four months, there fell 

 so violent a tempest of hail, rain, wind, thunder and 

 lightning as no man had seen the like in this age ; the hail 



