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
10.—Died at Hethel, aged 68, Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart., D.L., one of the
chairmen of Norfolk Quarter Sessions.
13.—A meeting of the owners, occupiers, and inhabitants of the hamlets
was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, to take into consideration the
expediency of establishing an effective police for the district.
Resolutions were passed asking the assistance of the city magistrates.
In consequence of the numerous highway robberies and burglaries, and
other depredations committed in city and county, public meetings were
held and resolutions passed granting a reward of £5 to watchmen who
apprehended offenders. It was stated that more burglaries had been
committed within the three preceding months than in the former twenty
years.
25.—The Hon. George John Watson, of North Elmham, second son of the Right
Hon. Baron Sondes, deceased, assumed the surname and arms of Milles, in
compliance with the will of his maternal grandfather, Mr. Richard Milles,
of North Elmham, and of Nackington, Kent.
27.—A meeting, presided over by Mr. John Morse, Father of the City, was
held at the Angel Inn, Norwich, at which resolutions expressive of
attachment to his Majesty’s person and Government, and to the established
constitution in Church and State were passed, and a loyal address to the
King adopted. The address, which received 1,634 signatures, was
presented to his Majesty in the following January by Mr. Charles Harvey,
M.P., Mr. John Harvey, alderman, and Sir Robert John Harvey. Similar
addresses were adopted by the Corporations of Yarmouth and Lynn.
1821.
JANUARY.
2.—A meeting of the dyers, dressers, and manufacturers was held at the
Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. John Harvey, chairman of
the manufacturing interest, to consider “the most effectual means of
checking the violation of the Sabbath, which has of late arisen to a most
shameful height, in consequence of the recent increase in the trade of
the city”; and the notice “on the part of the dyers and dressers of
bombazines announcing to the manufacturers the conditions on which alone
they had agreed to conduct their business, namely that of holding goods
which they may have in hand at the time of any bankruptcy or failure as a
lien for any balance due to them on their accounts.” The meeting was
adjourned _sine die_.
6.*—“The Rev. Alfred Inigo Fox, of Woodton Hall, has assumed the surname
of Suckling only, with the arms of Suckling, quarterly, with his own,
pursuant to the will of the late Robert Suckling, of Woodton Hall.”
9.—Mr. Mathews appeared at Norwich Theatre in his entertainments, “At
Home,” “A Trip to Paris,” and “Country Cousins.”
—At Norwich Quarter Sessions, Sarah Powell, keeper of a boarding school,
was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for cruelly ill-treating and
wounding Mary Ann Phillips, aged 6½ years.
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