( 1444 ) ^ 
UhoI, that there were but finall Gropi of Hay, which cala- 
mity befel the Southern parts alfo^ the caufe whereof may 
be perceiv'd by the following firft Table ot Monthly Rain 3 
in which you may perceive the growing Months of March 
and April to have been dry Months in LaHcaJhir&^ and May 
po wet Month.confidering the quantities ot theotherMonths, 
and of other Years publiQi'd heretofore in the Philof. Tranf 
Here at Vpmwfur^ April was fortunately a wet Month, till 
the 23d, or elfe, no doubt, we fhould have fufFer*d more 
than we djd in the want of Hay 5 tor the growing Month 
of March was a dry Month, by the following Table 5 and 
A% (which by the fame Table feemeth to have had near a 
due quantity of Rain) was a very dry Month by the Tables 
fent to Dr Sloane 5 for it appears by them, that vtxy little 
Rain fell from April ^3 till May 29, and then fell in great 
Showers, the greateft quantity of that Months Rain. Mr 
TovpHeley doth not tell me particulars, but I guefs it to be 
after tWs manner with them in the North of England $ for 
befides that March and April were dry Months with them, 
and My/fomewhat more wet, yet probably the wet of May 
did not fall early in May j for it appears by the following 
Table the third, that the Mercury was high, and in fome- 
what a fix*d Station on May 13. 
Thus much for the Weather in the Spring^Months of the 
Year 1702. and the cfFeds it had on Hay, which effefts I 
have fome reafon to think extended to many parts of this 
Kingdom, befides thofe already fpoken of. 
As to the other Months there is little remarkable, be 
fides the vaft difproportions of Rain between L^wc^yS/V^ and 
Ejfex, which I fhould fcarce take notice of , ifit was not 
what happeneth almoft every year, as will ippear by the 
following Table ift, which I now fend to compleat what 
hath been publiflied in former years in th^TranfaSions ^ the 
caufe of this I cannot judge of, unlcfs it be that Lancafiire 
is a more Hilly Country than Effex, which fort of Lands, 
as they more need v/et thari Vales and low plain Goumries 
do 
