The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience
Subtitle: to which is added a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. on the principles of the Newtonian philosophy
By: by John Claridge
Publisher: W. Bickerton
Published: 1744
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Weather forecasting; Early works to 1800; Weather; Folklore
Other titles: Shepherd's legacy; Country calendar
Notes: Rare Book copy: Imperfect, title page wanting; title from BM catalogue, v. 39, c. 959.

First published in 1670 as: The shepherd's legacy.

Caption title, p. 1: The country calendar, or, The shepherd of Banbury's observations.

'Who the shepherd of Banbury was is not known for certain. Mr. Claridge may conceivably have been the man himself, for in the original edition of the work, he speaks of himself as "John Claridge, shepherd,"'--cf. Introd. to the 1946 ed. by G.H.T. Kimble.