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January began mild, but foon inclined to froftj 
and, about the middle of the month, a fevere feafon 
fit" ih ; much froft, and great fnows, which would 
Have been very great indeed, if it had been all lying 
together ; but they were intermixed with thaw, rain, 
nnd floods, and continued to the middle of March. 
This caufed a great expence of hay, and, with the 
very backward fpring, and frequent cold weather, 
even to the middle of May, made few people have 
any conflderable quantity of hay left. There were, 
however, fome intervals of mild weather, and more, 
grafs this fpring than laft. 
The fummer was, in all the fouth of England, 
very dry, and burning. There was fo little grafs 
about London, that many were forced to fodder 
their cattle, even in the height of it j but in all the 
middle of England, the fummer was a very fine 
one ; no cold weather, nor in general very hot, but 
chiefly very fair and fine, and a fufficient quantity 
of rain came, whenever we wanted it : fo great a 
quantity of hay, fo well got, was hardly ever known. 
The beginning of harveft was alfo well got in, but 
the latter part of it, for it was a late one, was, in 
this country and northward, exceeding bad ; and in 
this wet weather, fome wheat fuffered, moft of the 
barley, and all the beans and peafe. The crop of 
wheat, where it was well gotten, was tolerable good, 
the barley yielded worfe, white peafe were plenti- 
ful enough, but ill got, beans and grey peafe uni- 
verfally a failing crop, much of the feed being burft 
in the wet feed-time. This bad latter part of harveft 
was in September, which was all very wet, as it 
was alfo, in a lefs degree, till the beginning of De- 
cember, 
