Wheat, 565. 10 d. per qr. (Tovey). 



A very wet summer (Tooke). 



The whole month of April without rain, and till May 

 13, when some refreshing showers. June 3. Seasonable 

 showers. July. Glorious steady weather ; corn and all 

 fruits in extraordinary plenty generally. August 5. 

 Stormy and unseasonable wet weather this week (Evelyn). 



Deficient harvest (Farmers' Almanack). 



April 22. A fiery exhalation rising out of the sea 

 spread itself in Montgomeryshire a furlong broad, and 

 many miles in length, burning all straw, hay, thatch and 

 grass, but doing no harm to trees, timber, or any solid 

 things, only firing barns or thatched houses. It left such 

 a taint on the grass as to kill all the cattle that eat of it. 

 It lasted many months (Evelyn). 



Frost so intense that many forest trees and oaks were 

 split by it ( Chambers). 

 1695 Wheat, 53^. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 



Wheat, 47.$". id. per qr. (Tovey). 



January 13. The Thames was frozen over. 2oth. The 

 frost and continual snow has now lasted near five weeks. 



February 3. The long frost intermitted, but not gone. 



March. The latter end sharp and severe, cold with 

 much snow and hard frost. 



April 14. After a most severe cold and snowy winter, 

 without almost any shower for many months, the wind 

 continuing north and east, and not a leaf appearing, the 

 wind and weather now changed, some showers fell, and 

 there was a remission of cold. 2ist. The spring begins 

 to appear, yet the trees hardly leafed. July 28. A very 

 wet season. August n. The weather now so cold that 

 greater frosts were not always seen in the midst of 

 winter; this succeeded much wet, and set harvest ex- 

 tremely back. 25th. The season wet, great storms, un- 

 seasonable harvest weather. 2 Qth. Very cold weather. 

 October. Very mild weather the whole month. Decem- 



