( 158 ) 



April. The season was unusually wet, with thunder. 

 September 20. A comet near Cancer very bright, but the 

 stream not so long as the former (Evelyn). 



Warm winter (Penny Magazine). 



Rainfall at Townley, 507 in. January, 9-9 in. June, 

 5 '2 in. July, 4*8 in. October 4*3 in. November, 5*2 in. 

 December, 4-6 in. (ft. Townley}. 



March 22. River Thames ebbed and flowed three 

 times in four hours (Lowe). 



Much damage at Brentford. The sudden flood oc- 

 casioned by the tempest was so great that the whole place 

 was laid under water. Boats were rowed up and down 

 the streets, and several houses were carried away by the 

 force of the torrent (Beauties of England and Wales). 

 1683 Wheat, 40^. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 



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



March was unusually hot and dry, and all April ex- 

 cessively wet. December 23. The Thames frozen, it 

 being this year one of the severest frosts that had hap- 

 pened for many years {Evelyn). 



Earthquake in many parts of England (Townsetid). 



Cold summer. Severe winter {Penny Magazine}. 



Rainfall at Townley, 37*2 in. June, 47 in. July, 4-1 in. 

 August, 5 '8 in. December, 0^4 in. (Townley). 



February 5 or 6. Very destructive flood throughout 

 the Trent valley and many other parts, occasioned by the 

 breaking up of a frost, with much snow, which commenced 

 in September, 1682, and continued without intermission 

 till February 5. The Trent Bridge at Nottingham almost 

 wholly destroyed by pieces of ice floated down the stream 

 (Lowe). 



The longest frost on record. Ice on the Thames 

 eleven inches thick. 



Nearly all the birds perished. Small-pox raged in 

 London (Lowe). 



The weather was very wet up to September 20 ; then 



