[1] The price of corne that had continued at an high rate, almost for the space of two yeares,The flix g [...]ten by exces|siue feeding on fruits. began to fall immediatlie after haruest was got in, to the great reliefe of the poore, which before through immoderate eating of nuts and apples, fell into the disease cal|led the flix, whereof manie died, and suerlie (as was thought) the death and dearth had beene greater, if the commendable diligence of the lord maior of London had not béene,The lord [...]|ior of Lond [...] commended for his care|full prouision of corne from beyond the seas in the time of dearth. in relieuing the commons by such prouision as he made for corne to be brought to London, from the parties of beyond the seas, where otherwise neither had the countrie béene able in anie thing to haue sufficed the citie, nor the citie the coun|trie. H. Knighton referreth this scarsitie to the yeare 1390, and maketh a large discourse both of the mise|ries which it brought with it, as also of the cause whereby it was procured, and of the notable meanes whereby the same in most places was remedied.