Short says: “Frost on Midsummer day; all grass and grain and fruit destroyed; a dearth.”
1059
Great frost, followed by a severe plague and famine.
1061
Thames frozen for seven weeks.
1063
Fourteen weeks’ frost: Thames frozen.
1076-7
Frost lasted from 1st November, 1076, to 15th April, 1077. It is recorded in the “Harleian Miscellany,” iii, page 167, that: “In the tenth year of his [William the Conqueror] reign, the cold of winter was exceeding memorable, both for sharpness and for continuance; for the earth remained hard from the beginning of November until the midst of April then ensuing.”
1086