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©2006 R.J.PENHEY

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FNQ

Fenland Notes and Queries, a Quarterly Antiquarian Journal for the Fenland, in the Counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Northampton, Lincoln, Norfolk, and Suffolk.

Volume I was edited by W.H Bernard Saunders and the later ones, by Rev. W.D. Sweeting, Rector of Maxey. Published by its printer, Geo. C. Caster of Market Place, Peterborough.

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This periodical appeared quarterly in 69 parts from 1889 to at least April 1906 by which time Sweeting was living in Surrey. The nineteen parts, from April 1889 to October 1891 constituted volume 1.

It took the form of a forum in which people sent in questions about the history, ecology and so on of the Fens and the region’s environs and others replied with some sort of answer. Some ‘answers’ seem to have been spontaneous, so qualifying as ‘notes’. The concept had been used before, in Notes and Queries, to which reference is sometimes made in FNQ.

The latter was referenced in the usual way, by volume (though, less formally, each issue published was called a part) and page but the articles were numbered separately in sequence of publication. This is the reference used on these web pages.

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The transcriptions listed here have been taken from a set of copies in the Willoughby Memorial Library, to the trustees of which, I offer my thanks.

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The following index lists the items so far transcribed by topic group.

Administration

338              Boundary between Kesteven and Holland (Part 1: 1500) (lacks footnotes as yet)

380              Boundary between Kesteven and Holland (Part 2: 1500) (lacks footnotes as yet)

425              Boundary between Kesteven and Holland (Part 3: 1500) (lacks footnotes as yet)

468              Boundary between Kesteven and Holland (Part 4: 1817)

Bourne Charities

32                Whitebread Meadow Auction

1049            Whitebread Meadow Auction

Bourne’s Name

444              Wheeler’s view

Bourne People

518              Frederick Charles Worth [sic]

610              Robert Mason Mills: FNQ correspondent

852              William Dodd’s Publication of Callimachus

1035            Manor of Sutton Holland (Everard Buckworth)

Curiosities

21                Earthquakes in the Fenland

22                Storm at Morton

32                Whitebread Meadow Auction

118              Earthquakes in the Fenland

151              Raining Wheat at Bourn

172              The Wise Woman of Market Deeping

759              Tale of a Terrier

1049            Whitebread Meadow Auction

Economics

26                Price of Food at Ramsey in 1317

177              Crowland and Whittlesey 1792

602              ‘Roman’ Pottery at Bourne

Hereward

591              The Author of the Camp of Refuge: Question

610              The Author of the Camp of Refuge: Answer

Religion

210              George Fox in the Fenland

298              The Seven Associated Counties

1102            Spalding Priory

Seventeenth Century & English Civil War

42                Plague at Ramsey

62                French Protestant Refugees in the Fens

108              The Underwood Family

167              Huntingdon Grievances in 1642

210              George Fox in the Fenland

298              The Seven Associated Counties

346              The Plague in the Fens

479              Opposition to Drainage by Soke of Peterborough, 1650

501              King’s Speech, 1662

758              Arrests in Cambridgeshire

760              Civil War, 1642. News sheet report on events in Peterborough and Sleaford

761              Siege of Crowland

834              Delinquents around Peterborough [Part 1]

838              The King’s 10,000 Acres

860              Delinquents around Peterborough [Part 2]

1113            Serges, in Lincolnshire [Skegness]

1125            Crowland Retaken

 

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The Hereward the Wake supplement. Numbered by chapters. This was originally published in parts, with issues of FNQ from April 1895.  There are 36 chapters in all but my principal source has a gap of three issues (33, 34 & 35) so breaks off ⅞ of the way through Chapter XXX. The end of the story was therefore, not immediately available, when I decided to concentrate on bringing what was fully available, toward completion, before seeking another source for the rest. At present, those available chapters have all been transcribed but some need more thorough proof-reading and the completion of a commentary. Should you be impatient to know the details of the end of the story, there is a translation, without the Latin, by Bevis. This should be more generally-available than the FNQ. But I have now uploaded stop-gap versions of the chapters XXXI to XXXVI, based on material from the new source.  RJP

The Hereward Contents page

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Rev. W.D. Sweeting’s lecture on the history of Maxey

Rev. W.D. Sweeting’s Maxey churchyard grave survey

Rev. W.D. Sweeting’s Cathedral Church of Peterborough Full version

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