ABSTRACT
The wheat harvest: years of scarcity, 1660–1759
1657–61
( 5)
4 bad or deficient harvests, followed by dearth in 1661
1692–8
( 7)
‘the seven lean years’; only 1694 average, the rest bad or deficient or, as in 1693 and 1697, years of dearth
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315844237/30e3ea83-bae9-4f24-8d12-5833382976b8/content/partIII_2_K_1_384_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
( 4)
bad in 1708; 1709 – the worst dearth since 1596; 1710–11 deficient; 1713 bad
1725–8
( 4)
a deficient and an average harvest, followed by 2 bad ones
1739–40
( 2)
deficient 1739; dearth 1740
1756–7
( 2)
dearth 1756; deficient 1757
