[1] A verie wet season for a long time by continuall raine.In the winter season of this yeare fell great a|bundance of raine, and namelie in September, No|uember, and December. And on the sixtéenth of Ia|nuarie it rained so abundantlie, that great flouds thereby insuing, destroied corne fields, pastures, and drowned manie sheepe and beasts. Then was it drie till the twelfe of Aprill, and from thence it rained euerie day or night till the third of Iune, & in Maie it rained thirtie hours continuallie without ceasing, which caused great flouds, & did much harme, namelie in corne, so that the next yeare it failed within this realme, and great dearth insued.