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Rainfall at Lyndon, 27*2 in. Norwich, 29 in. 



Severe frost from January 26 to February 8. 26th. 

 Severe gale. 27th. Thunder. March from i to n. 

 Constant rain. A very wet month, being fair only on 

 1 5th, i6th, 1 7th and i8th. May. Very heavy rain till 

 1 8th. Corn much damaged and much unsown. 6th. 

 Much snow, preceded by thunder and lightning. 9th. 

 A sharp frost. 2ist and 22nd. Warm. June 6. Ex- 

 tremely hot, thunder. July. Very wet. August. We 

 have had remarkably hot and dry weather. November 

 19. Snow and heavy rain. 2ist. With thunder {Lowe). 

 1752 Wheat, 415. io*/. per qr. of nine bushels (Smith). 



Wheat, 375. 2d. per qr. (Tovey). 



Labourers' wages, lod. to is. zd. per day. Wheat, 

 3-y. 6d. to 4S. 6d. per bushel. Meat of all kinds, z\d. to 

 3^/. per Ib. Cheese, z\d. to $d. per Ib. Butter, $\d. to 

 4<t. per Ib. Malt, 2s. gd. per bushel (Sir Thos. Beevor). 



September 19. Rain in Wales, which destroyed 10,000 

 sheep (L. lownsend). 



December 14. A terrible storm of thunder, lightning, 

 and rain, with hail and heavy gales of wind at Bristol 

 ( Townsend). 



Rainfall at Lyndon, 21*1 in.; at Norwich, 24*9 in. 

 June, 3*1 in. July, 37 in. September, 0-5 in. October, 

 0-3 in. December, 3-1 in. (Barker). 



January 14. S. gale. i5th to 2ist. Five days' snow, 

 with N.E. gale. Snow 27 in. deep on the level. Windy, 

 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23. February 18. Very stormy. 

 Gales on March 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 30. Snow, 23rd 

 and 25th. May 5. Waterspout in Lincolnshire. Cool 

 and damp during the summer in London. 



Gales, August 25 and 26, with floods. September i, 

 19, 20, 21. October dry and warm. 9th and loth. 

 Snow. loth and nth. Gales; also in November 4, 8, 

 and 10, and in December 12, 14, 18, 19, 23 and 26 

 (Lowe). 



