Martinmas Quotes

“In this year there was so great corruption of the air, and inundation of rain, throughout the whole of England and Scotland, that both crops and hay were nearly all lost. And some men's corn rotted in the fields from the day of harvest; some men's corn, shaken out by the wind, grew again under the straw; some men's harvest was so late that they did not reap it until about the festival of St. Martin [11 November] or later.”
― Joseph Stevenson, Chronicon de Lanercost