Bourne Archive: FNQ: Curiosities

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FNQ

Fenland Notes and Queries. This will have been originally in the quarterly Part 6 or 7, July or October 1890. 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.

Curiosities

151 – Raining Wheat at Bourne. – The following is taken from “Admirable Curiosities,” dated 1728. “April 26^th, 1661, at Bourn, in Lincolnshire, it rained wheat; some grains were thin and hollow, others firm, and would grind into flour. Pecks of it were taken from off church leads and other houses leaded, and several who were witnesses brought up quantities to London.”

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