Merionethshire overflowed, and spoilt much corn. The 

 stream was so choked with mown hay as to break down 

 a dozen large bridges (Dr. Hans Sloane). 



1707 Wheat, 28^. 6d. per qr. of nine bushels at Windsor 

 (Smith}. 



Wheat, 25^. 4*/. per qr. (Tovey). 



Very dry from March 12 to May 22. Sun hot by 

 day, nights cold. Parching winds. Spring corn did not 

 come up till June. Hot summer. Wheat much blighted. 

 Showery weather in harvest. Extreme wet winter (Lisle). 



July 8 was so excessively hot and suffocating by reason 

 of no wind stirring, that divers persons died (Derham). 



Aurora borealis in November (Derham). 



Rainfall at Upminster, 16-3 in. (Derham). 



1708 Wheat, 415. 6d. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 

 Wheat, 365. lod. per qr. (Tovey). 



Wet and cold spring. Cut barley 3oth August. Rain 

 every day for three weeks to 2oth September, followed by 

 a severe winter (Lisle). 



Dreadful winter (Gilbert White). 



Thames frozen. 



Extraordinary cold in December (Chambers' Diet.). 



June 12. It was so cold that there was a hoar-frost, 

 and during all the cool weather of that month there were 

 frequent and large rains, amounting to above two inches 

 in depth in Essex (Derham). 



January 24. Great snowstorm (Pulmaris Book of the Axe). 



September i. Great thunder and lighteninge; ye 

 greatest floods that hath been known in any man's age 

 ( Winchcomb Register). 



Rainfall at Upminster, 19*2 in (Derham). 



A hard frost, which brought on a prodigious scarcity of 

 provisions, more in France than in England. In general 

 the summer was cold and wet (Tooke). 

 1709 Wheat, 78*. 6d. per qr. of nine bushels at Windsor 

 (Smith). 



