September 17. Three mock suns. July. The houses 

 near the Leen, at Nottingham, 2 feet deep in water 

 (Thoresby). 



October 9. A great storm. November 12. A great 

 N.W. gale. 1 2th to i8th. So severe a frost at Edinburgh 

 that 24 hours after it began persons were walking on the 

 lake. 



Nov. 13. Aurora borealis brilliant at 6 p.m. (/. 

 Short). 



November 24 and December 20. Gales. 24th. 

 Thames flowed into Westminster Hall, the prodigious 

 high tide being occasioned by previous heavy rains 

 (Boyle). 

 1737 Wheat, 38^. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 



Wheat, 33.?. yd. per qr. (Tovey). 



February 14. Prices of corn in Salisbury market : 

 Wheat, 3,?. 6d. to 45. 6d. per bushel; barley, 17^. per qr. ; 

 oats, iu. to i2S. per qr. ; beans, y. 6d. to 4$. 6d. per 

 bushel ; peas, 1 25. per. qr. 



May 12. A load of wheat belonging to Farmer Waters, 

 of Burford, going to Redbridge for exportation was 

 stopped near Whiteparish by about 60 people, who 

 knocked down the fore horse, broke the wagon in pieces, 

 cut the sacks, and strewed about the corn. They threat- 

 ened to do the like to all who sold wheat for exportation. 

 Price of wheat peck loaf, 25. $d. ; household, is.-S^d. 

 (Salisbury Newspaper). 



Great inundation of the Severn (Bath and West of 

 England Journal). 



A comet (Townsend). 



Hot summer (Penny Magazine). 



Weather very changeable; the summer dry; August, 

 as cold as winter ; September, very changeable ; October, 

 much catarrh ; November, fatal diarrhoea (Short). 



January 9. In the evening, and for some hours in the 

 night, such a violent storm of wind, rain and hail that 



