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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… adds very much to their affliction is the extraordinary drought, so that their sluices and watermills signify little; …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… the people endure in Spain and Portugal by reason of this drought, corn being at that excessive rate in Lisbon, they …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… worth 3 d. a pound in the country by reason of the great drought last year there. They also bring news that the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… A ship from Spain reports that the extraordinary drought has parched up all the fruit and corn; 60 sail of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… near me except some uplands which burn away on the least drought. On these and many other considerations, importing no …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… for the consuls at those places. After a long and great drought the earth has been refreshed with comfortable … to Williamson. We have a very backward spring and a great drought occasioned by the pinching N.E. winds, which also … France. God has given us comfortable showers after a great drought, insomuch that at many places near this, though the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… W. Last night we had a little shower. There is a great drought in these parts, and the springs are so dead that most … morning came to S.W. with the continuance of an exceeding drought. [ Ibid. No. 86.] May 5. Plymouth. Philip Lanyon to … who had done them much mischief. After a very great drought, God has sent us two showers and to-day one great …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1678
… and beans, those grains being almost lost by reason of the drought. [ Ibid. No. 31.] May 29. Whitehall. Warrant from the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… of the shire for this county. We have had a very great drought in these parts, the like hardly known at midsummer, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1678
… has been easterly these eight days with continuance of drought and for these last four days very hot weather. [ S.P. … the beginning of the harvest, we have had a very great drought, so that the country people have been forced to drive … to be hotter now than it was at Midsummer. The heat and drought being both in their extremes is thought to be the …