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burying the bodies of diseased dead cattle, caused by the 

 continuing rains, whereby the air is likely to become 

 corrupt from the infinite numbers of sheep and other 

 great cattle being suffered by the owners to remain dead 

 above ground {Somerset Sessions}. 



Great floods and inundations in December, January, and 

 March, 1674. Smothering of people in snow. Drowning 

 of many cattle and people, etc. {Somerset Mag.). 



1674 Wheat, 68s. M. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 6is. per qr. (Tovey). 



Great floods in January and March. Thirteen days of 

 drifting snow in March in Scotland (Somerset Mag., vol. 

 xxiv.). 



A famine year (Rogers). 



Such desolation was caused in Scotland that the ill- 

 fated Monmouth, husband of Lady Anne Scott, of 

 Buccleuch, received the royal license to import from 

 Ireland 4,800 Nolt of a year old, and 200 horses to make 

 up the loss sustained on the Buccleuch lands by the 

 thirteen drifty days of March (Standard). 



Deficient harvest (Farm. Aim.). 



Snow fell in England for eleven days ( ). 



Small-pox destroyed an eighth part of the people in 

 London (Nettleton). 



December 21. Whole woods were torn up by the 

 roots by a N. W. gale, at Tarbut, Scotland (Sir G. 

 Mackenry). 



May 7 and 8. Great floods on rivers Trent and Tame 

 (Lowe). 



1675 Wheat, 6$s. 8d. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 57J. $d. per qr. (Tovey). 



Deficient harvest (Farm. Aim). 

 An exceeding dry summer and autumn (Lisle). 

 January 4. A terrible earthquake 7 to 8 p.m. at 

 Alrewas, Staffordshire (Lowe). 



November 23. Lunar rainbow at Oxford (Dr. Plot). 



