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Fenland Notes and Queries. This will have been originally in about the quarterly Part 6, October 1889. Edited by W.H. Bernard Saunders, F.R. Hist. Soc.

Articles 1 to 237 (April 1889 to October 1891) were re-published as Volume 1, in 1891, by Geo. C. Caster, Market Place, Peterborough.

This quarterly periodical which, from the second volume (part 12) became associated with the name of W.D. Sweeting, 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’. Editorial notes in the form [note] are those of FNQ; those in the form [note] are those of RJP.

My thanks to the trustees of the Willoughby Memorial Library for the loan of the copy from which the following was transcribed.

118 – Earthquakes in the Fenland. – (No. 21, Part 1.) – In Shaw’s Chronicle, p. 76. it is stated that a great Earthquake took place at Ely, Norfolk, and Suffolk, in 1165. No mention is made of it in the list of Earthquakes in the Fenland which was published by Mr. Miller in Part 1. of Fenland Notes and Queries. Can any particulars be supplied?

T.V.W.

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