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
—Died at St. Stephen’s, Norwich, aged 60, Mr. James Wade, butcher. He
served the office of Sheriff in 1810.
26.—James Bigmore, aged 20, left Sudbury at 12.30 noon with the
Phenomenon coach by the side of which he ran the whole way thence to
Norwich, where he arrived at five minutes to seven o’clock. “To keep up
with the coach he was obliged to run eleven miles in the first hour. On
arriving at places where the coach stopped he did not take refreshment or
repose, but assisted in putting the horses to at every change. He was
not at all distressed on reaching Norwich.”
MAY.
1.—At a meeting held at the Rampant Horse Inn, Norwich, it was determined
to call a general meeting of the farmers to consider the propriety of
establishing an agricultural association to co-operate with the London
General Association for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of
Agriculture. At the meeting which took place on the 15th the Norfolk
Association of Agriculturists was duly formed, and on the 29th Mr.
Utting, of Ashwellthorpe, was appointed president.
3.—George Bidder, only 12½ years of age, demonstrated in the Old Library
Room, St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich, his extraordinary powers of mental
calculation. He made a return visit in August.
6.—The Grand Jury at the City Sessions made a presentment to the effect
that the Norwich gaol was not capable of being converted into an
efficient prison for the purpose of the classification of prisoners.
13.—Died, aged 100, Mrs. Hannah Scott, of Holt.
21.—A meeting was held at the Assembly Room, East Dereham, to take into
consideration the best means of obtaining navigation between that town
and Norwich. A subscription was opened.
22.—Thomas Jennings, pedestrian, ran 18 miles on the turnpike road
between Downham Market and Denver in two hours three minutes.
24.—The 24th Regiment of Light Dragoons, commanded by General Loftus, and
chiefly composed of Norfolk men enlisted in Norwich, was disbanded at
Chatham. The regiment left England in 1796, and was actively employed in
India, under Lord Lake, during the Marhatta campaigns, for which service,
among other distinctions, it received an honorary standard. In general
orders issued on the departure of the regiment from India on October 8th,
1818, its services were very highly spoken of.
26.—A silver candelabrum, valued 200 guineas, was presented to Mr. John
Patteson, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, by members of the Norwich Fire
and Life Societies, in recognition of the services rendered by him to the
institutions. Mr. Patteson’s collection of pictures by English, Italian,
and Flemish artists was this month sold by auction by Mr. Christie, and
realised the sum of £2,349.
28.—Pitt’s birthday was celebrated by a dinner at the Assembly Rooms,
Norwich. Mr. J. Patteson presided.
JUNE.
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