| shortly after the merchants of the Stiliard (Steelyard) | brought from Danske (Danzic) such store of wheat and rye, | that it was better cheape at London than in any other | part of the Realme.”—Penkethman. | 1545 | England. A wonderful dearth and extreme prices. | 1549 | England. Famine from neglect of agriculture. | 1556-58 | England. Famine from great rains, bad and inconstant | seasons; heat and long south winds.—Short. | 1563 | London. Famine and pestilence, said to have carried off | 20,000 people. | 1565 | British Isles. Extended famine. £2,000,000 said to have | been expended in importation of grain. | 1586 | England. “In the 29th yeare of Queen Elizabeth, about | January, Her Majesty observing the general Dearthe of | Corne, and other Victual, growne partly through the | unseasonablenesse of the year then passed, and partly | through the uncharitable greediness of the Corne-masters, | but especially through the unlawful and overmuch | transporting of graine in forreine parts; by the advice | of Her most Hon. Privy Council, published a Proclamation, | and a Booke of Orders, to be taken by the Justices for | reliefe of the Poore [commencement of the poor law], | notwithstanding all which the excessive prices of graine | still encreased: so that Wheat in meale, was sold at | London for 8s. the Bushel, and in some other parts of the | Realme above that price.”—Penkethman. | 1594 | England. Famine. During the siege of Paris by Henry IV. | this year, owing to famine, bread which had been sold, | while any remained, for a crown a-pound, was at last made | from the bones of the charnel-house of the Holy | Innocents.—Hinault. | 1595 | England. (36 Elizabeth.) “By the late Transportations of | graine into forreine parts, the same was here grown of | an excessive price, as in some parts of this Realme, from | 14s. to 4 markes the quarter, and more, as the Poore did | feele; and all other things whatsoever were made to | sustain man, were likewise raysed, without all conscience | and reason. For remedie whereof our Merchants brought | back from Danske (Danzic) much rye and wheat, but passing | deere; though not of the best, yet serving the turn in | such extremities. Some ’Prentices and other young people | about the Citie of London, being pinched of their | Victuals, more than they had beene accustomed, tooke