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
—A meeting of the gentry, clergy, and yeomen of the Hundreds of
Guiltcross and Shropham was held at East Harling, under the presidency of
the Earl of Albemarle, when an address was voted to Mr. Coke, M.P., and
presented to him at Thetford Wool Fair on July 26th.
19.—Thomas Carter was publicly whipped in Norwich Market Place for
stealing a cow.
—At the Norwich Court of Mayoralty, the Mayor stated that complaints had
been made to him of offences committed in the city by bakers, foggers,
and others, exercising their trades on Sunday. The Court gave notice
that it was not lawful “to make or bake any bread, rolls, or cakes of any
sort or kind on the Lord’s Day, commonly called Sunday,” nor to deliver
them “at any time after half past one of the clock in the afternoon of
that day.”
24.—Skipper, the pedestrian, undertook for a wager of 25 guineas to walk
from Norwich to Thetford and back, a distance of 55 miles, in 12 hours.
“He walked 54 miles, but having only four minutes to perform the last
mile, gave in.”
AUGUST.
6.—Died at his house in the Lower Close, Norwich, aged 55, Mr. Frank
Sayers, M.D., author of “Poems, including Sketches of the Northern
Mythology,” and “Disquisitions, Metaphysical and Literary, Antiquarian
and Historical.” A monument, with a Latin inscription by the Rev. F.
Howes, was erected in the Cathedral to the memory of the deceased.
7.—Died at Hoveton St. John, Mr. Thomas Blofeld, D.L., for many years one
of the chairmen of the Norfolk Quarter Sessions.
11.—Sports were held at Reedham under the patronage of Mr. Layton, of
Reedham Hall. The principal event was a wrestling match, taken part in
“by twenty-four as fine athletic young fellows as England can produce.”
12.—A cocking match, “fought in silver,” between the gentlemen of Norwich
and the gentlemen of Yarmouth, commenced at the Feathers Inn, Yarmouth,
and concluded on the 14th. Feeders: Lamb for Norwich, Nash for Yarmouth.
15.—The first stone of the Nelson Monument on the South Denes, Yarmouth,
was laid by the Hon. Col. Wodehouse (chairman of the sub-committee), in
the presence of the Mayors and Corporations of Yarmouth and Norwich. A
civic dinner was given, and in the evening a ball, attended by 350
persons, took place at the Town Hall.
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