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Great plague in London and other places. 



1666 Wheat, 36^. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 32.$-. per qr. (Tovey). 



September 2. A very dry season previous. A long 

 set of fair warm weather. October 21. After so long 

 and extraordinary drought in August and September this 

 season was so very wet and rainy as many feared an 

 ensuing famine (Evelyn). 



December 31. Very hard frost in London (Lowe). 



A comet (Townse?id). 



January 18. Earthquake at Oxford, etc. 24th. Thun- 

 derstorm at Andover. May 12. At Oxford. July 17. 

 Hailstorm in Suffolk. At Aldborough some hailstones 

 were full as big as turkey's eggs. At Yarmouth small 

 (Dr. Fairfax). 



On the Wednesday before Easter a great tempest of 

 thunder and rain at Cranstead, Kent, and although no 

 ponds about, two acres were scattered over with whitings 

 of the size of a man's little finger (Dr. Conny). 



1667 Wheat, 36^. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 32^. per qr. (Tovey). 



March. Great frost, snow and winds prodigious at the 

 vernal equinox ; indeed it had been a year of prodigies in 

 this nation, plague, war, fire,jain, tempest and comet. 

 April 4. The cold so intense that there was hardly a leaf 

 on a tree (Evelyn). 



A comet (Townsend). 



At the beginning of January a hard frost (Lowe). 



1668 Wheat, 40^. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 35^. 6d. per qr. (Tovey). 



Dry March. 



July 24th, at Sutton Pool, Warwickshire, owing to a 

 sudden rain a great flood took place. The waters flowed 

 over a stone wall ten feet high. Two large pools of 20 

 acres each, called Windley and Bracebridge, had their 

 dam heads both broke through by the press of water, 



