Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth CenturyMackie, Charles
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Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century
Mackie, Charles
Norfolk (England) -- History
30.—Three African youths taken out of a Portuguese slave ship by Capt.
the Hon. P. F. Irby, of the Amelia frigate, and sent by him to Norwich
for education, were baptised at St. Peter Mancroft Church.
JUNE.
4.*—“At Gretna Green, Mr. Thomas Bunn, corn merchant, to Miss Sarah Cobb,
second daughter of Mr. John Cobb, of Yarmouth.” The parties were
re-married at Gorleston by the Rev. Mr. Forster, on June 4.
7.—Mr. J. Youngs, of St. Peter Hungate, Norwich, was carried in a sedan
chair to record his vote at the Mayor’s election. On his return home he
immediately expired. He was 85 years old.
8.—Died, at the Grotto, Thetford, Mr. John Ellis, “long known as an
industrious collector of antiquities, fossils, foreign birds, &c., of
which he had a large and very curious cabinet.”
17.—The first recorded “speech day” at Norwich Grammar School. It was
described as “the first speech day of the kind ever held at Norwich or at
this school,” and its inception was due to the fact that “the Latin
oration which in former times used to be delivered at the school porch on
Guild Day,” had been “for the last two years superseded by the
non-observance of that annual festival.”
19.*—“Died, last week in St. Clement’s, the Widow Herring, in her 106th
year.”
—The officers of the Norwich Court Leet seized the defective measures of
Edward Phillipps, a retail corn dealer, in King Street. The offender was
fined by the court, who ordered the forfeiture of two of the measures.
20.—Mr. Bowles, “formerly a respectable performer in the Norwich Company
of Comedians,” preached at the Octagon Chapel to a numerous congregation.
21.—Opening day of Holkham Sheep Shearing. It was stated in the course
of the proceedings, that “a very large quantity of bones is collected in
Norfolk and exported from Yarmouth to distant counties, where, after
being ground or crushed, they are used as manure by farmers.” “Why,” it
was asked, “should not Norfolk and Suffolk farmers lay their bones in
their own counties?”
JULY.
1.—A rowing match for pair-oared boats took place at Whitlingham.
Distance, one and a half miles; the best two heats out of three. The
winner of the silver cup was the Achilles, owned by Mr. Homer.
4.—The Expedition coach entered Norwich, with colours flying, and with
the intelligence of the great victory of the Allied Army at Vittoria
under Lord Wellington on June 21. “Mr. Coldwell, the proprietor of the
coach, himself brought down from London a copy of the ‘Gazette
Extraordinary,’ and read its glorious contents from the coach box to his
fellow citizens assembled in the Market Place.”
7.—The Mayor of Lynn (Mr. John Hemington) laid the foundation stone of
the new Theatre in that town.
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