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1680 Wheat, 45 s. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 4os. per qr. (Tovey). 



Two comets (Townsend). 



November 12. A remarkable meteor. After many 

 days and nights of snow, cloudy and dark weather, the 

 comet was very much wasted (Evelyn). 



Severe winter (Penny Mag.). 



Towards the middle of November appeared a comet, 

 with a prodigious stream of light in the west. The star 

 from which the blaze proceeded was but small, and when 

 first discovered seemed not to be much above the horizon, 

 but every night afterward it appeared higher and higher 

 in the beginning of the night, and consequently setting 

 later and later, its magnitude and lustre also proportion- 

 ably decaying (Hist, of Europe). 



Earthquake in Somerset, January 4, at 7 a.m. 



Rainfall at Townley, 44-3 in. January, 5-1 in. February, 

 4*9 in. August, 5*0 in. October, 57 in. November, 4 '8 in. 

 (Lowe. 



Several meteoric stones fell in London (Greg). 



1681 Wheat, 465. 8d. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 415. $d. per qr. (Tovey). 



March 27. An extraordinary sharp and cold spring, not 

 yet a leaf on the trees ; frost and snow lying whilst the 

 nation was in the greatest ferment. April. But one 

 shower of rain all this month. May 25. There had 

 scarcely fallen any rain since Christmas. June 12. It still 

 continued so great a drought as had never been known 

 in England, and it was said to be universal (Evelyn). 



Rainfall at Townley, 33*3 in. January, 0*5 in. April, 

 o'6 in. May, 07 in. September, 6'i in. (R. Townley). 



May 17. Mock sun (Lowe). December 4. Mock 

 sun. 



Small-pox violent in London (Nettleton). 



1682 Wheat, 445-. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 39,?. \d. per qr. (Tovey). 



