A sextarius of | wheat sold for 20 shillings.” | 1135-37 | England. Great drought and famine. | 1141 | England. Famine, said to have lasted twelve years.—Short. | 1154 | England. From rains, frost, tempest, thunder, and | lightning. | 1175 | England. Pestilence, followed by great dearth. | 1176 | Wales. A great famine and mortality. | 1183 | England and Wales. A great famine severely afflicted both | England and Wales. | 1193-96 | England. Famine occasioned by incessant rains. “The common | people (_Vulgus pauperum_) perished everywhere for | lack of food; and on the footsteps of famine the | fiercest pestilence followed, in the form of an acute | fever.”—Walter Hemingford. | 1203 | England. A great mortality and famine, from long rains. | 1209 | England. Famine from a rainy summer and severe winter. | 1224 | England. A very dry winter and bad seed-time, whence | followed a great famine. | 1235 | England. Famine and plague; 20,000 persons die in London; | people eat horseflesh, bark of trees, grass, &c.—Short. | 1239 | England. Great famine, “people eat their children.”—Short. | 1248 | England. “By reason of embasing the coin of great penury | followed.” | 1252 | England. No rain from Whitsuntide to autumn; no grass; | hence arose a severe famine; great mortality of man and | cattle; dearness of grain and scarcity of fruit. | 1257 | England. The inundations of autumn destroyed the grain and | fruit, and pestilence followed. | 1258 | England. North winds in spring destroyed vegetation; food | failed, the preceding harvest having been small, and | innumerable multitudes of poor people died. Fifty | shiploads of wheat, barley, and bread were procured | from Germany; but citizens of London were forbidden | by proclamation against dealing in same. “A great dearth | followed this wet year pest, for a quarter of wheat was | sold for 15 and 20 shillings, but the worst was in the | end; there could be none found for money when—though many | poor people were constrained to eat barks of trees and | horseflesh, but many starved for want of food—20,000 (as | it was said) in London.”—Penkethman. | 1271 | England. A violent tempest and inundation, followed by a | severe famine in the entire district of Canterbury. | 1286 | England. Short speaks of a twenty-three years’ famine | commencing this year. | 1289 | England.