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Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London
… 33Hamo Godchep, Sheriffs. In this year there was a great famine, so that people without number died of hunger; and …
Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London
… people within the town were all but destroyed by the great famine which prevailed in the said city. For the water, … were they pent within the city, and so great was the famine, that the quarter of wheat was worth four pounds …
Old and New London
… above 800,000 in the year of his mayoralty. There was a famine in England in his time, and at his persuasion the City …
The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, etc.
… and especially by the English exiles, from pestilence and famine in 1694 and 1695. When she wrote this volume she was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… 48 and 'plugdrawing ' marked 1842. 49 The severe cotton famine of 18623, due to the Civil War in the United States, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 'Selborne mob' during what seems to have been a period of famine or strike in the village in the early nineteenth …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… was followed by a failure of the harvest in 1346, and by famine in the following year The feeding of the people is …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… of corn had always been profitable, and in periods of famine very extensive, as in 1334, when seven merchants …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… to Denmark with all his fleet, by reason of the great famine that then sorely oppressed the land, so that he could …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of poor Irish labourers, driven from home by the great famine, came to Liverpool to work at the docks. To minister …