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Value of ;ioo tithe rent charge, ^95 7^ <)d. (Official 

 Returns) . 



Seven years' average : Wheat, 52.?. zd. ; barley, 30^. 6d. ; 

 oats, 2 is. ^d. {Official Returns). 



Wool, i8d. perlb. ; beef and mutton, $^d. ; cheese, 6\d. 

 (Driver). 



Off-going ewes sold for 291. (f. Phillips'). 



Lincoln wool, i$%d. per Ib. Wheat on hills 17 bushels 

 per acre ; so| bushels in vale (/. Phillips). 



Began harvest August 13 ; finished October i (If 

 Baker). 



Began harvest August 7 ; finished September 14 (Cox). 



Wet and late season. Under average crops (Driver). 



Rainfall at Epping, 30 J in. ; at Falmouth, 51 J in. 

 (Almanack). 



Harvest damaged by very heavy, incessant rains (Times). 



An inordinate continuance of wet weather (Pulman, 

 Book of the Axe). 



Long continued rains during the latter part of summer 

 and the greater part of autumn {Penny Magazine). 



May 14. Small snow for four hours in the morning, 

 and 1 5th and i6th much more, with severe frost at night. 

 September an extremely wet month and many floods. 

 Wet throughout the autumn (Cox). 



January 7. Severe gale (Whistlecraff). 



Rainfall at Greenwich. 27*09 in. January, 1*22 in. 

 February, 1-41 in. March, 1-59 in. April, 1-33 in. 

 May, 1*51 in. June, 1*70 in. July, 3*42 in. August, 

 2*49 in. September, 4*46 in. October, 173 in. No- 

 vember, 4 % o2 in. December, 2*21 in. (Glaisher). 



May was very dry, and the rainfall below the average 

 to 2ist June (Brumhani). 



A summer of much thunder and rain. Very wet 

 autumn, especially in November {Brumham). 

 1840 Wheat, 66^. 4^. per qr. ; barley, 36^. $d. ; oats, 

 25*. &d. (Official Returns). 



