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A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… of corn or spelt for the convent, unless prevented by drought, and is to keep the mill in repair. Fourteenth …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north-west, 59 it has occasionally suffered in years of drought, when all springs ran dry. 60 The parish lies mostly …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… Universal dearth, the country wholly dismantled by drought, and no grain to be bought for either man or beast … and the price which is much risen in consequence of the drought, and many greedy buyers; its scarcity and increasing …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… being but as the sprinkling of a small dew after a long drought, and their large returns for England and other places …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… deceased, in this place also raging a great contagion from drought; so that they are in great need of seamen, pursers, … indigo bought green in Oct. and Nov. loses much weight by drought, which occasions the difference in price between new …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… mortality of the worms, caused by extraordinary drought throughout the country, and had it not this year been …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan
… of the price of cloth, because by reason of the extreme drought this last summer, the fulling mills could not work. …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia
… of this dearth's beginning, which was an extraordinary drought for a whole year, that doubled the price of cotton …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… wheat and barley this year, as there has been so great a drought and such heat that the ground is much spoiled, and in …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… from Spain that corn will be very scarce there owing to drought, and that great efforts are made to buy through …