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FNQ
Fenland Notes and Queries. This was originally in the
quarterly Part 1 or 2, April or June 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,
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.
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– Earthquakes in the Fenland. – The following is a list of Earthquakes
recorded as having taken place in the Fenland: ---
1048. In
1117. Particularly
felt in
1185.
1448. Shock felt
in S. part of
1750. Shock
attended by rumbling noise. Felt in Lincolnshire & Northamptonshire.
Chimneys fell -- homesteads tottered. [In
Collection for a Topographical History of the Hundred of Aveland, by John Moore.]
1792. Shock felt
at Bourne and Neighbourhood.
S. H. Miller,
[See also FNQ118]