[1] [2] In the same yeare by the wind, which continuallie certeine months togither kept northerlie, the flours, with other growing things, were so hindered, that scarselie they appeared to anie purpose,A late growth till the most part of Iune was past, wherevpon the hope of recei|uing the fruits of the earth was quite taken away,I dearth ac|companied with a death. & so vpon the great dearth that happened, a sore death and mortalitie followed, for want of necessarie food to susteine the pining bodies of the poore people. They died so thicke, that there were great pits made in churchyards to laie the dead bodies in one vpon an other.