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weeks during latter part of April and all May. Great 

 scarcity of hay and grass. Very wet winter (Lisle). 



A comet (Townsend). 



Hot summer (Penny Magazine). 



February 3. A remarkable storm, at which time was 

 the greatest descent of the mercury ever known (Defoe 

 from Derhairi). 



Violent gale all evening and till the morning of 4th 

 (Derham). 



Scarcely any rain from April 23 to May 29 ; after May 

 29 great showers. March had been a dry month, and 

 April, up to 23rd, wet (Derham). 



Rainfall at Upminster, 20*4 in. 

 1703 Wheat, 36*. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 



Wheat, 32*. per qr. (Tovey). 



January. Corn and provisions so cheap that the 

 farmers are unable to pay their rents. June 13. Rains 

 have been great and continual, and now near midsummer 

 cold and wet. July 25. The last week in this month 

 a long-continued rain, and the Sunday following thunder 

 and lightning. Nov. 21. The wet morning. Nov. 26, 27. 

 The effects of the great hurricane and tempest of wind, 

 rain and lightning through all the nation were very 

 dismal. Many houses demolished and people killed 

 (Evelyn). 



Much grass. Wet summer. Late harvest May and 

 June very wet. Corn yields very ill (Lisle). 



April, May, June and July wet months in South of 

 England. In May there fell more rain than in any month 

 in any year since 1696. June was a dripping month. 

 July had considerable intermissions, but violent showers 

 on 28th and 29th. September was a wet month, especially 

 the latter part. October and November not remarkably 

 wet, but open, warm months for the most part ( ). 



November ye 26th day at night, or rather, the 2 7th in 

 morn, a great wind which blowed down houses, barnes, 



