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of all their hogs that were in their styes and yards, to- 

 gether with all the horses that were in stables ; for the 

 waters rose twelve feet in less than five hours, which was 

 in the dead time of the morning, nothing of it being per- 

 ceived at one o'clock ; it reached their chamber windows 

 before five, and the face of the water was covered with 

 the bodies of the beasts that perished. The damage at 

 West Ham alone was computed at ^"100,000. At 

 Chelmsford, Cambridge and Norwich great damage was 

 sustained, and at many other places ; sundry persons 

 perished, and several thousands of hogs, horses, horned 

 cattle and sheep were drowned. Houses were over- 

 flowed ; the roads in many places were three feet deep. 

 Several post boys had nearly lost their lives, and the 

 mails and their horses were drowned. Houses, chimneys 

 and trees were blown down ; numbers of vessels driven 

 on shore, and others lost. Part of Kingston bridge in 

 Surrey, those of Kelvedon, Chesterfield, and Ilford in 

 Essex, Buntingford in Hertfordshire, Tunbridge in Kent, 

 Morton and Saxthorpe in Norfolk, and some others were 

 carried away. In fine, such a melancholy scene of 

 devastation has not been remembered in this country by 

 the present race of inhabitants {London Magazine). 



Five recruits belonging to the young Buffs who perished 

 in the snow coming up the hill from the Fop Lane end 

 on Sunday, the 2ist February, at 5 o'clock in the evening 

 {Feb. 26th, Register of Stow-on-the- Wold). 



A comet {Townsend). 



May 29th (Turner). 



Snow for eleven days {Dugdak). 



A very hot and dry summer, and a very dry year 

 {Brumham). 



December 25. A very hard frost commenced, which 

 continued till the 2Qth of January {Boyle). 

 1763 Wheat, 40^. qd. per qr. of nine bushels {Smith). 



Wheat, 36^. id. per qr. {Tovey). 



