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A very dry summer and often very hot (Brumhani). 

 1766 Deficient harvest. Bread, is. 6d. the 4lb. loaf. A 

 severe frost {Farmers' Almanack). 



Severe winter {Penny Magazine}. 



Seine entirely frozen over ( ). 



Great rot in sheep. Oats, about is. 6d. per bushel ; 

 hay, 2s. per cwt. ( ). 



Wheat, 435. id. per qr. (Tovey). 



Two comets (Townsend). 



One appeared March 8th, the other April 8th (Turner}. 



Arthur Young about this time quotes the following 

 prices : viz., old crone ewes, $s. each ; cows, ^5 each ; a 

 sow and ten pigs, three weeks old, 52^. 6d. ; rent of ordi- 

 nary land, 155. per acre; old crone ewes, sold fat, with 

 their lambs, 155. per couple. A cow gave from May till 

 October inclusive 369 gallons of milk, which was sold for 

 6 2s. There was nothing remarkable in the goodness 

 of the cow or her feed. The common clear profit of a 

 cow is ^4. The common price of hiring cows is $. 

 Hay, from 40^. to 605. per ton; barley he reckons at i6s. 

 per qr. ; wheat, at 32*. per qr. (A. Young). 



April 21. A large spot, three times the size of the 

 earth, passed over the centre of the sun's disc. June 2. 

 A collection was made for the haymakers, who had 

 assembled at the Royal Exchange on account of the 

 heavy rains, which prevented them from working. July 

 30. Three thousand sheep were destroyed by the floods 

 near Great Upvvell. The corn was seized from the 

 farmers by the poor at Hoxton and sold at 55. 6d. per 

 bushel. The high price of provisions produced a riot at 

 Exeter. September 29. Exportation of corn stopped 

 (Boyle). 



September 25. We have had a most uncommon rainy 

 summer, which was no way propitious to the growth of 

 wheat ; but it pleased Providence to send us the finest 

 hot and dry harvest ever known, yet the warm constant 



