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
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( 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