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Very mild winter. No cold at all. January 21. Ways 

 are dusty, rose bushes full of leaves ; such a time of the 

 year as was never known in this world before (Pepys). 



February 18. Great storm in London (Old Almanack). 



Upon the i8th of February, being Tuesday, very early 

 in the morning there began a very great and very dreadful 

 storm of wind (accompanied with thunder, lightning, hail 

 and rain, which in many places was as salt as brine), 

 which continued with a strange and unusual violence till 

 almost night, the sad effects whereof throughout the 

 nation are so many that a great volume is not sufficient to 

 contain the narrative of them (Defoe). 



An exceedingly sickly wet autumn (Evelyn). 



December. An earthquake (Mallet). 



February 23. Mock suns. September 6. Coloured 

 arches and mock suns. 



The river Derwent was so wonderfully dried up that in 

 many places there was no water, and people might go 

 over dry shod (Pilkington). 



1662 Wheat, 74^. per qr. (Adam Smith), nine bushels 

 (T. H. B.). 



Wheat, 655-. gd. per qr. (Tovey). 



January 15. Fast day for more seasonable weather. 

 It having hitherto been summer weather, both as to 

 warmth and every other thing, as if it were the middle of 

 May or June (Pepys). 



January 15. General fast for colder weather. There 

 had fallen great rain without any seasonable cold, it being 

 near as warm as at Midsummer some years. February 

 17. This night and the next day fell such a storm of hail, 

 thunder, and lightning, as was never seen the like in any 

 man's memory, especially the tempest of wind, being south- 

 west, which subverted, besides huge trees, many houses, 

 innumerable chimneys, and made such havoc at land and 

 sea that several perished on both. July 28. Ill weather. 

 December i. Great frost ; Thames frozen (Evelyn). 



