No luck with guitar strings

Two weeks ago, I changed strings on the Stagg and wrote¹ "I'm leaving the [E] string to settle, and tomorrow I'll tune it then remove the excess". I didn't remove the excess as I intended as previously this caused a problem with the string. Today I decided to trim the excess: I made the cut ... then the string snapped, leaving me no option but to take an E string from yet another set. I strung this string and again I'm leaving it for a fortnight to settle in. 

These are supposedly Fender strings, "tens", and should be good. I haven't had a guitar string snap on me for decades, and then it probably was the G string, not the E. Strange.

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