Lexicographical Neighbors of Fenmen
Literary usage of Fenmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"... the resistance of the fenmen : new views on commons : Winstanley's claims :
enclosures advocated as a step towards agricultural improvement. ..."
2. East Anglia and the Great Civil War: The Rising of Cromwell's Ironsides in by Alfred Kingston (1897)
"THE FIRST SIEGE OF CROWLAND—THE BATTLE OF THE PARSONS—CROMWELL AND THE fenmen.
(1643.) The farmers gave them ball for ball From behind each fence and ..."
3. James Brindley and the Early Engineers by Samuel Smiles (1864)
"Camden spoke of the country between Lincoln and Cambridge as " a vast morass,
inhabited by fenmen, a kind of people, according to the nature of the place ..."
4. Skating by John Moyer Heathcote, C. G. Tebbutt, T. Maxwell Witham, Henry A. Buck, John Kerr, Ormond Hake (1892)
"A Senior Wrangler remarked most confidently, at about this date, to a well-known
skater, that he supposed the fenmen could skate a mile in a minute, ..."
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