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
19.—At the opening concert of the Harmonic Society, Mr. and Miss Mori
made their first appearance in Norwich. Mr. Mori is stated to have been
“well known as one of the first violin performers of the present day.”
21.—The Rev. Edward Bankes, LL.B., was installed a Prebendary of Norwich
Cathedral, in place of the Rev. George Anguish, A.M., resigned.
—*“Died at her father’s house in Gun Lane, in this city, aged 19, Miss
Smith, daughter of Mr. Smith, of Norwich Theatre.”
NOVEMBER.
3.—Died at Yarmouth, aged 70, Sir Edmund Lacon, Bart., senior alderman of
the borough. He four times served the office of Mayor. He was succeeded
by Mr. Edmund Knowles Lacon, of Ormsby.
11.—Soon after the arrival at Norwich of the coaches with the
intelligence of the abandonment of the Bill of Pains and Penalties after
its third reading in the House of Lords, the bells of “one or two of the
minor parishes” were rung, a few houses illuminated, and parties paraded
the streets with flambeaux, crying “Light up for the Queen.” An attempt
to make a bonfire on the Castle ditches was prevented by the magistrates,
many of the torches were put out, and eight of the torch bearers taken to
the watch-house. In view of a disturbance 1,000 special constables were
sworn in on the 13th, on which evening a procession was formed on
Tombland. In passing through the city the mob groaned outside houses
which were not illuminated, and an iron ball was hurled through the
window of Dr. Reeve’s house in St. Giles’. On the 23rd a public meeting
was held at St. Andrew’s Hall, presided over by the Mayor, when
congratulatory resolutions and an address to the Queen were adopted.
(The address was subsequently presented to her Majesty at Bradenburgh
House by Mr. N. Bolingbroke, who was accompanied by Mr. W. Smith, M.P.,
and Mr. Edward Taylor.) After the meeting a bonfire was lighted in the
Market Place. “We understand that an impression of the NORFOLK CHRONICLE
(surely not dishonoured by being obnoxious to such a crew) was committed
to the flames.” Demonstrations took place at Yarmouth, Lynn, and other
towns.
13.—The Olympic Circus was opened by Mr. T. Cooke at the Pantheon,
Norwich.
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