Modest observations on the present extraordinary frost : containing I. A brief description thereof ... II. An account of the most eminent frosts that have happen'd for many hundred years past ... III. Philosophical presages of what may be feared now to ensue, viz. Scarcity of corn and victuals, general sicknesses, and pestilences ... IV. The cries of the poor; and an easy way proposed how there may be twenty thousand pounds a week, at least, raised for their relief, about London ... / By T.T.

  • Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Date:
1684
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Credit: Modest observations on the present extraordinary frost : containing I. A brief description thereof ... II. An account of the most eminent frosts that have happen'd for many hundred years past ... III. Philosophical presages of what may be feared now to ensue, viz. Scarcity of corn and victuals, general sicknesses, and pestilences ... IV. The cries of the poor; and an easy way proposed how there may be twenty thousand pounds a week, at least, raised for their relief, about London ... / By T.T. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “id Le prefent Wonderful Frof, which isthe General Theme of Difcourfes. and. under the fad Effects whereof fo many rdinary Degrees, but towards Chrifimas became very7™ Sharp, 1h firft Week of January the River of Thames was {oFrozen, chat People began co Walk, over; On Monday Sanunarythe 7th, on the ¢ the Adoon in Aquary, there were Expectations, and fome Likelyhood,of a Thaw, but prefently after it Freze more violently , and on the 1th and 11th in the morning, a Coach Plyed between the Temple and the Old Barge-houfe, yet towards Night the 11th (the Afeex having been in Oppofition to Sfupiter ) at Thaw'a a little; and the 12 and 13th was fine Gentle Weather, yet not ranch Thawing; the Wind at North-Eaft , On the 13th it Froze gain briskly » rill the 19th, when a great szow fell; the «8th high,moft fharp, and peucing Winds, and -on the 23d the Air was more feverely Pesreing thant ever, and more Svow fell; And being the firft day of the Term, CoachesPly dat the Temple-Staires, and carried the Lawyers to Weftminster on the Ieex-and thence forwards the fame Continued , and whole Streets of Shedds e- very Where burit on the Thames, Thovfands Pafling: Buying, Selling, Drin- king» and Revellings € Lwith I could not fay on the. Lords Day too; ) and. moft forts of Trades-Shops.on the.{ce, (and amongft the refit a Printing-howfe there Erected) Balls Baited, and Thovfands of Specta- tors; all which frill continues at the Writing hereof, being Jamuary the 29th, 168%. i Nay, below. the Bridge, hundyeds daily pafs3; The River Hitysber Gas lL am-cres ibly. informed ) where ris feveral Adiles broad, iskrozen 0- wer, and Vait Flakes of Icevare feen Floating in the Demnes, of Diverife Miles in Length, and proportionable Breadth. continuing ftill a SE Ha oi NEY Se cee weer