Very severe frost.
1149-50
Frost lasted from 10th December to 19th February.
1154
A great frost.
1176
A frost lasted from Christmas to Candlemas.
1205
In Stow’s “Chronicle,” it is recorded that on the 14th day of January, 1205, “began a frost which continued till the 20th day of March, so that no ground could be tilled; whereof it came to passe that, in the summer following, a quarter of wheat was sold for a mark of silver in many places of England, which for the most part, in the days of King Henry II., was sold for twelve pence; a quarter of oats for forty pence, that were wont to be sold for fourpence. Also the money was so sore clipped that there was no remedy but to have it renewed.” Short states, “Frozen ale and wine sold by weight.”
1207