“…Transcribing Wittewronge, I found good agreements for notably eventful daily weather descriptions matched with Gadbury, quite often with identical phrases, for example: ‘cool’, 17 and ‘hard frost’. A striking example of coherent agreement amongst several records is described in Tinkler (2021) concerning an overnight maritime collision near Calais on 22/23 December 1684 and interpreted using daily weather records by Gadbury, Ashmole, Boyle, Plot and Wittewronge.…”