Wheat, 43^. per qr. (Official Returns}. 



Barley, 27$. id. ; oats, i6s. qd. per qr. Summer and 

 autumn were a continued series of wet weather. Both 

 corn and hay greatly injured in harvesting. Average 

 produce of wheat, 14 bushels per acre. Wheat, 55. 6d. 

 to 6^. ; malt, 55-. 6d. per bushel ; meat, ^d. to ^\d. per Ib. ; 

 cheese, 4^. to 5^.; butter, lod. to is. (Billingsley). 



Down wool, 2s. per Ib. (Driver). 



Inferior harvest, much injured by wet (Clarke}. 



July and August r6 below the average temperature 

 (Times). 



Great sheep rot. 



Some hard frost in January, but mostly wet and mild. 

 February, some hard frost and a little snow. March, wet 

 and cold. April, great storms on the i3th, then some 

 very warm weather. May and June, cold and dry. July, 

 wet and cool ; indifferent harvest, rather late and wet. 

 September, windy and wet. October, showery and mild. 

 November, dry and fine. December, mild (G. White). 



Rainfall at Selborne, 48-56 (Gilbert White). 



June 5. Gloucester and the surrounding country not 

 -only visited by an intense frost, but the ground was 

 covered with a deep snow (Gloucester Notes and Queries). 



Spring and summer were wet and cold, hay and corn 

 bad, wet winter, but neither frost nor snow (Gloucester 

 Notes and Queries). 



Wages, is. to is. $d. per day (Sir Thomas Beevor). 



Summer remarkably cold and ungenial all over Eng- 

 land. It was uniformly wet, windy, cold and dark, 

 excepting one dry week in August, when the heat was so 

 excessive as to cause many deaths, and at the com- 

 mencement of September all thoughts of summer were 

 annihilated by the severe frosts. r On June 23rd there 

 was a severe storm in the Cheviot Hills, where the snow 

 and hail covered the ground to a depth of half a foot 

 (Gentleman's Magazine, p. 883). 



