[1] [2] [3] About this time, the sea rose on such a heigth, that manie men were drowned thereby. Also a great snow fell this yeare, which by reason of the hard frost that chanced therewith, continued long without wa|sting away, so that fishes both in the sea and fresh water died through sharpenesse and vehemencie of that frost, neither could husbandmen till the ground. A sore eclipse of the sunne chanced also the sixt ides of Ianuarie. The monasterie of Westwood or Les|nos was begun to be founded by Richard de Lucie Lord chéefe iustice. The same yeare also at Wood|stocke the king made his sonne the lord Geffrey knight.