"No rain from the 21 April till the 7th of June, but continued cold east and north-east wind, with a frost. June 3d, bread cost at London, ye first sort at 11_s._ 8_d._ a strick, a little while. On the 7th of June, wind south-south-west, a charming rain fell every where, w'ch lowered ye exesive prises: after y't, a drought succeeding, corn kept a high price, wheat 6_s._, barley 4, till near harvest, and exportation stoped: grass burnt up all summer: very little hay: butter and cheese very dear: everything continued so. Ye 7 of Nov. fell a great snow and rain w'ch made a flood: ye 10 begun a hard frost, w'ch continued with great severity, the ground covered with snow till ye 22: the 21 fell a great deal of snow, w'ch went away with some rain, and was a very great flood. During this frost the Thames was frose, and great calamitys feared from the want of hay and straw, w'ch the happy thaw prevented." EDW. HAWKINS. PECULIAR ATTRIBUTES OF THE SEVENTH SON. Allow me to offer a Note on that part of MR. COOPER'S communication (Vol. iii., pp. 148, 149.) which relates to the alleged power of the "seventh son" to cure the "king's evil". This superstition is still extant in this part of Cornwall. I have recently been told of three _seventh_ sons, and of one _ninth_ son, who has been in the habit of touching (or, as it is here called, "_striking_," which seems to mean nothing more than _stroking_) persons suffering from the disease above referred to. The _striker_ thrice gently stokes the part affected by the disorder, and thrice blows on it, using some form of words. One of my informants, who had been so "struck" when a child, has a charm, or rather an amulet, which has just, for the first time, been opened at my instigation. It is a small bag of black silk, and is found to contain an old worn shilling of William III., bored and stitched through in a piece of canvas. This was presented to the patient at the time of the operation, and was to be kept carefully as a preservative against the malady. In Bristol, about forty years ago, there lived a respectable tradesman who was habitually known as _Dr._ Peter P----, with no better title to his degree than that he was the seventh son of a seventh son. Those who have read Mr. Carleton's tragic tale, _The Black Prophet_, will remember that, in Ireland, the seventh son of the seventh son is supposed to be-- "Endued With gifts and knowledge, per'lous shrewd!" And in Keightley's _Fairy Mythology_ (p. 411. _note_, ed. 1850) are given some tradition of that gifted Welsh family, the "Jones' of Muddfi," whose forefather had married the "Spirit of the Van Pool."