Wheat, 35.$-. 6d. per qr. (Tovey). 



Calm, bright, and warm as April, to January 21. The 

 weather on 25th was now altering into sharp and hard 

 frost. February 18. Mild and calm season with gentle 

 frost and misling rain. 8th. The season was like April 

 for warmth and mildness. March 24. The season 

 warm, gentle, and exceeding pleasant. April. A most 

 glorious spring with hope of abundance of fruit of all 

 kinds and a propitious year. June 2. A sweet season 

 with a mixture of refreshing showers (Evelyn). 



Corn housed extraordinary well. May cold and wet. 

 Mowing an acre of clover, is. Cutting an acre of 

 vetches, 2s. 6d. November, frosty (Lisle). 



Rainfall at Upminster, 19*3 in. (Derham*). 



Extremely warm (Lowe). 



All duties payable on the exportation of wheat, etc., 

 cease ( 1 1 and 1 2 William /// ). 



1701 Wheat, 37^. So 1 , per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 33*. $d. per qr. (Tovey). 



January 4. An exceeding deep snow and melted 

 away as suddenly. i9th. Severe frost and such a tem- 

 pest as threw down many chimneys and did great spoil at 

 sea. May. A great dearth, no considerable rain having 

 fallen for some months. xyth. Very plentiful showers, 

 the wind coming west and south. August. The weather 

 changed from heat not much less than in Italy or Spain 

 for some days, to wet dripping and cold with intermissions 

 of fair (Evelyn). 



This was a mighty corn year, and a year which grew 

 much straw. Hot summer. Clover high in barley. 

 Dry March and April (Lisle). 



Hot summer (Penny Magazine). 



Rainfall at Upminster, 18-7 (Derham). 



1702 Wheat, 29^. 6d. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 26s. 2d. per qr. (Tovey). 



Dry summer and harvest. Very hot and dry for six 



