Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth CenturyMackie, Charles
History
Norfolk Annals, Vol. 1: A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century
Mackie, Charles
Norfolk (England) -- History
1.—A remarkable funeral took place at Shelfanger. The body of Mr. Smith,
a farmer, was conveyed from Fersfield in a waggon drawn by his own team.
The coffin was covered with a waggon tilt, and sacks of straw served as
seats for his children and grandchildren. Behind the waggon walked his
riding horse as chief mourner, and the singers of the congregation
chanted a funeral dirge. “He was a person who in habits, manners, and
opinions exhibited a singularity that was not easily paralleled.”
4.—Died at St. Gregory’s, Norwich, aged 61, Mrs. Chesnutt, wife of Mr.
John Chesnutt. For many years she was a favourite dancer on the Norwich
stage.
—At a special assembly of the Corporation of Norwich, it was decided to
present to the Prince Regent an address, congratulating him upon “the
late glorious victories with which the Almighty had been pleased to crown
the arms of his Majesty and his Allies.”
5.—Died, of wounds received at Bayonne, Ensign Hardy, 31st Regiment of
Foot, son of Mr. James Hardy, of Hethersettt.
6.—Died, at his house at Catton, Mr. Jeremiah Ives Harvey, Alderman of
Conisford Ward, Norwich. He served the office of Sheriff in 1779, and
was Mayor in 1783. He was in his 69th year.
7.—A curious incident occurred at the funeral of Benjamin Edwards, for 20
years coachman to Lord Suffield at Blickling. “The corpse was conveyed
from the house to the church for interment, followed by thirty servants
in their liveries. After the Rev. Mr. Churchill had retired from the
grave an old acquaintance came forward and performed a promise which had
been made by each party, which was done as follows:—He enquired his age,
and was informed it was 64. He then took a bottle of rum from his pocket
and threw it upon the head of the coffin. From the fall the bottle broke
and the rum was distributed upon the lid of the coffin. He said ‘God
bless him. I have performed my promise as I am sure he would have done
had I gone first.’”
8.*—“A few days since the harriers of Mr. J. Gooch unexpectedly found an
outlying deer in Hempnall Wood, which they immediately drove from covert,
and it afforded a most capital chase without a break for an hour and
forty minutes, through sixteen parishes and a hard run of 28 miles.”
—*“Lieut. Robert Blake, of the 3rd Regiment of Foot, was so severely
wounded in the action near Bayonne that he had his leg amputated.”
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