From this day till the 22d March, ‘great frost, that nae plews gaed
while aucht days; and men might pass and repass on the ice of Lyon the
3d day of March.’ February 22, after noon, ‘there came ane great storm,
and snaw and hail and wind, that nae man nor beast might take up their
heads, nor gang, nor ride, and mony beasts, and mony men and women,
were perished in sundry parts, and all kind of victuals right dear, and
that because nae mills might grind for the frost.’--_C. F._
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[Sidenote: 1571.