[1] The great raine that fell in the summer season this yeare did much hurt vnto corne standing on the ground, Matth. Paris. Great raine. so that a great dearth followed. In the win|ter also after, about the tenth day of December, it began to fréese extreamelie, and so continued till the nineteenth of Februarie:A sore frost. wherby the riuer of Thames was so frosen, that men might passe ouer it both on foot and horssebacke.