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
26.—The Phenomena day coach was advertised to run from the Angel Inn,
Norwich, and the One Bull Inn, Bury, to the Bull Inn, Aldgate, London, in
fourteen hours. It set out from Norwich at a quarter to six. The
proprietors, William Pawson, T. Bridgeman, George Archer, and Ann Nelson,
Son, and Co., prohibited racing on the part of their coachman. The rival
coach, the Norwich and London Original day coach, started from the
Norfolk Hotel every morning at a quarter to seven and ran to the Spread
Eagle, Gracechurch Street, and the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, through
Bury, Sudbury, Chelmsford, and Romford. Racing was prohibited by the
proprietors, namely, R. Gurney, T. Boyce, Chapman, S. Bright, J. Boldero,
J. Tomlinson, Elizabeth Boyce and Son, and W. Waterhouse.
28.—Died, the Rev. St. John Priest, A.M., master of Scarning Free School,
rector of Reepham with Kerdiston and of Billingford, and vicar of Parham
with Hacheston, Suffolk. He was secretary of the Norfolk Agricultural
Society from its institution in 1800.
OCTOBER.
1.—Married, at York, Upper Canada, Mr. Samuel Peters Jarvis, barrister,
and son of the late secretary of that province, to Mary Boyles, youngest
daughter of the Hon. W. D. Powell, Chief Justice of Upper Canada, and
granddaughter of Dr. John Murray, of Norwich.
3.—Sir Edmund Lacon, Kt., of Great Yarmouth, Mr. Thomas Hare, of Stow
Hall, and Mr. Edward Stracey, of Rackheath Hall, were created baronets.
12.—Died at St. George’s Colegate, Norwich, aged 50, Mr. Thomas Allday
Kerrison, who was Sheriff in 1798, Alderman in 1803, and Mayor in 1806.
13.—A sailing match, which took place at Thorpe for a silver cup, was won
by the Dreadnought (Stone), which beat the Albion (Ganning), and the Argo
(Harvey).
—A trial took place at midnight of a gasometer with complete apparatus
erected by Messrs. John and Philip Taylor, of London, at the factory of
Messrs. Joseph Oxley and Sons, of Norwich. They were the first to
introduce gaslight into a Norwich factory.
21.—At the Norfolk Quarter Sessions, Mark Woodcock appealed against a
conviction for taking toll at a turnpike gate off soldiers when on duty.
The 15th Light Dragoons, stationed at Lynn, were being “taken out for an
airing” and on passing through Gaywood gate the appellant demanded toll
of them, to the amount of 4s. 4½d. He alleged that the soldiers were not
on duty, and that they passed through the gate wantonly and
unnecessarily, and in order to give him trouble. The court confirmed the
conviction.
24.—Messrs. T. S. Coldwell and William Horne, proprietors of the Mercury
coach, from the Maid’s Head, Norwich, through Wymondham, Attleborough,
and Thetford, to the Golden Cross, Charing Cross, London, advertised
“reduced fares at what you please.” The coach ran every Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday.
—Adams’ Equestrian Troupe commenced a season at the Ranelagh Gardens,
Norwich, where a stage was provided for the production of pantomime and
burletta.
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