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
24.—Died, at Coltishall, Mr. Bartlett Gurney, banker, of Norwich, aged
46. He left £500 to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
MARCH.
5.*—“Mr. Stephen Martin, an old gentleman who lately died at Brentwood,
bequeathed to the minister and churchwardens of St. Giles’, Norwich, the
sum of £1,000 Stock in the three per cent. Consols, to be laid out for
the use and benefit of the poor of that parish, of which he was a native.
He was born in 1717, and when an infant was taken to Jamaica, where he
amassed a fortune.”
7.—At an assembly of the Corporation of Norwich an address of
congratulation was ordered to be presented to his Majesty “on the
providential discovery of the late traitorous conspiracy against his
Royal person and Government, entered into by Col. Despard and six other
persons, who were executed on the top of the new Surrey prison, in
Horsemonger Lane, on February 21st.” The address was presented to the
King by the Mayor (Sir Roger Kerrison), accompanied by Mr. Robert
Fellowes, M.P., and Alderman John Harvey. Similar addresses were voted
by the Corporations of Yarmouth, Thetford, and Lynn; and by the High
Sheriff and Grand Jury of Norfolk at the Assizes at Thetford. The latter
address was presented by Sir J. H. Astley, M.P., and Mr. T. W. Coke,
M.P., on March 30th.
11.—Died, aged 73, Mr. Thomas Twiddy, “who had been many years trumpet
herald to the Norwich Company of Comedians.”
14.—Died, Mrs. Parfrey, aged 80, wife of Mr. R. Parfrey, of Holme Hale,
near Swaffham. “The public will best recollect her, as a doctress, by
her former name of Fyson, and for the many cures she made in dropsy and
other complaints.”
15.—At a meeting held at St. Andrew’s Hall the late members of the
Norwich Loyal Military Association, in consequence of the aspect of
public affairs, offered their services to the Government.
19.*—“Two pairs of eagles were lately shot near Yarmouth. One pair
measured and weighed as follows:—Female, length, 3 feet 4 inches; extent
of wings, 8 feet; weight, 9¾ lbs. Male, length, 2 feet 9 inches; extent
of wings, 7 feet 1 inch; weight, 9¼ lbs. Seventeen wild swans have also
been shot by one man in the week.”
21.—The Militia Regiments in the county this day assembled at Yarmouth,
East Dereham, and Swaffham.
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