July 19. The excessive wet has laid the corn flat, and 

 much hay has been spoilt by flood in the valley of the 

 Thames (Lowe). 



March 9. A whirlwind at Kilverston, in Norfolk, which 

 blew the lead off the tops of the churches, the tiles from 

 the houses, levelled a piece of ground as if it had been 

 harrowed, blew water out of the river carrying it i J fur- 

 long. (Boyle). 



August 23. Great rain; a flood. 27th. Violent gale, 

 did much damage, and destroyed a third of the hops. 

 September 7. Gale with tremendous rain at Droitwich ; 

 men, horses, sheep, and bridges were carried away by the 

 flood. At Coventry greater flood than for forty years 

 (Brighton). 



September 15. A hailstorm destroyed most of the un- 

 reaped corn in Ayrshire ; it lay two feet thick in some 

 places. October 27. Great flood. December 7. Fearful 

 thunderstorm, with great rain, at Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 

 December ii. Aurora borealis. 3oth. Two mock suns 

 (Lowe). 

 1736 Wheat, 40^. 4^. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 



Wheat, 35^. lod. per qr. (Tovey). 



Remarkably deep snow (Townsend). 



January. Scarcely any frost, continuous rains, many 

 lives lost by floods. February 2. A gale. 8th. Great 

 snow, with gale. i6th. Thames rose 6f in. above the 

 height of the great tide of March 8, 1726, being higher 

 than for fifty years. 2ist. Great snow; great flood in 

 May. 



From May to December 17*0 in. of rain fell at Lyndon, 

 Rutland (Barker). 



July 5. From the beginning of March such continuous 

 rains the like not known in the memory of man. All 

 the low meadows in the kingdom floated, and the hay 

 and corn carried away or spoilt. The damage done 

 almost incredible. In three days five inches of rain fell. 



