A very wet summer (Tooke). 



1697 Wheat, 60^. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 53 s. $d. per qr. (Tovey). 



January 17. The severe frost and weather relented, 

 but again froze with snow. February 7. Severe frost 

 continued with snow. Soldiers in the armies and garrison 

 towns frozen to death on their posts. September. Very 

 bright weather, but with sharp east wind. October 3. 

 So great were the storms all this week that near 1000 

 people were lost going into the Texel (Evelyn). 



Deficient harvest (Farmers' Almanack). 



A very wet spring. 



Rain r all at Townley 38*0 in. Much rain in March, 

 August and September, but little in January and April 

 (R. Townley). 



Rainfall at Upminster, Essex, 15*5 in. (Derham). 



Great thunderstorms, with hail, April 29, May 4, and 

 June 6, killing fowls, rooks, hares, etc. ; hailstones 

 immense size (ff alley, etc.). 



1698 January 26. Ice eight inches thick. 29th. Thunder 

 and lightning. February 14. Great snowstorm; snow 

 drifts several yards deep. February 26. Ice four inches 

 thick. Weather very cloudy, with north-east wind nearly 

 all through February. March 24. Warm weather ; a 

 thunderstorm; also March 26, April n, 25, and 27. 

 April 22. Snow all day. A cold April. May 8. A 

 great deep snow all over England. i$th. Woods like 

 winter. June 3. Thunderstorm with fierce great hail 

 covering the ground three inches deep. Cold, very back- 

 ward spring ; the latest for the past forty-seven years, 

 but very hot for the first part of July. July 9. Thunder- 

 storm. 1 5th. Great rain. i8th to 26th. Cloudless. 

 August 13 to 15. Frosts, after which very fine to the end 

 of the month. August 28. Three mock suns and 

 circles from 8 a.m. till 10 a.m. Thunderstorms on 

 October 3, November 17, December 22. Extremely 



