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CORNISH WEATHER
 

1607hot summer and winter
1608severe and cold high imports
1614-15hard winter
1622poor harvest
1622-23severe winter
1625mild summer (plague in London in end of year)
1626severe winter, famine; plague 1626 in Cornwall Falmouth and other parts of West Country
1627-28wet winter wheat failed
1630dry summer and 1631 poor harvest. High wheat prices nationally
1631plague nationally
1636good harvest
1637good harvest
1644severe winter heavy January snowfall
1647-51bad harvests
1648wet summer cattle died poor harvest
1648-49severe winter
1649famine
1647plague St Ives
1649-51poor harvests.
1656hot and dusty, 1657 rain in London sickly countryside
1658severe winter
1661wet August
1662-63middle winter cold and wet season
1665-66winters cold
1665plague in London.warm summer
1666dry summer good harvest
1667prices low. Exporting from Cornwall
1668good harvest for exports
1669price of wheat not high
1670dry summer reasonable harvest
1671dry summer good harvest
1673deficient harvest
1674price of corn high
1677 & 1678poor harvest
1678 & 1679imports considerable
1679harvest good
1680, 1682-84all good harvests – exports made
1684-85severe winter Thames frozen long frost
1686bad harvest in Cornwall. Imports
1687better harvest exports
1692-98hard winters, poor harvests famine
1693, 1694, 1696exports of corn
1697import
1700corn prices normal
18919 March, The Great Blizzard
  
Contributed by Pat Balmer
 
Source: Cornish Weather and Cornish People in the 17th Century, Dr James Whetter (1991)