Note 215 — HISTORY OF LYNN, PART II.

Catus Dicianus, as was observed before, was the Roman Procurator over the province of the Iceni in the reign of Claudius, and perhaps in that of Nero; and seems to have been, not only the chief cause of Boadicea’s revolt, by his brutal treatment of her and her daughters, but also the principal director of the canals, embankments and other works and improvements then carried on in and about the fens.—See above, Part I. Chap. 2. Section 1.