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FNQ
Fenland Notes and Queries. Edited by Rev. W.D. Sweeting, Rector of Maxey.
Part 24, January 1895
This quarterly periodical 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’.
17th
Century and Civil War
501
– King’s Speech, 1662. – The Fenland had the honour of being mentioned in the
Speech from the Throne to the House of Commons, on 1 Mar. 1662. We learn this
from the Calendar of State Papers, Dom.
Ser., LII., 294. The King says that he “wishes to
leave town at Easter to meet the Queen, and begs that before then public
business may be despatched, especially the security of the fenlands.”
W. C. L.