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
—The Phœnix new night coach from the Star Inn, Market Place, Norwich,
left on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, at four o’clock and arrived at the
Bull Inn, Aldgate, at eight in the morning. It was advertised on this
date as the property of Ann Nelson and Sons and Thomas Ridley and Co.
—Died at Coltishall, aged 77, Mr. William Palgrave, an alderman of
Yarmouth, who served the office of Mayor of that borough in 1782 and
1805.
26.—A grand moving panorama of the battle of Genappe, St. Helena, &c.,
was opened in Mr. Noverre’s room, St. Michael-at-Plea, Norwich.
28.—Died at Doughty’s Hospital, in his 63rd year, John Swan, for many
years an inhabitant of St. Peter Mancroft. “In the former part of his
life he acted as watchman and parish constable. Being of athletic make,
of a stern countenance, and possessing a sonorous, rough voice he excited
terror and commanded obedience to his authority. He was several years
one of the appointed trumpeters for sounding before the judges in the
Assize week, and also for attending at Thetford on the same occasion.”
29.—An inquest was held at Loddon by Mr. Pilgrim, coroner, on the body of
James Dale, who was killed the preceding day by a patient in the private
lunatic asylum kept by Mr. Jollye, surgeon. The deceased, a keeper,
incautiously laid down the carving knife which he was using at the dinner
table, when the patient snatched it up and stabbed him in the left
breast, killing him instantly.
30.—Lloyd’s Equestrian Troupe commenced a season’s engagement at the
Ranelagh Gardens, Norwich.
DECEMBER.
1.—H.R.H. the Duke of York passed through Norwich on returning from a
visit to Houghton Hall.
—Died at Downham Market, Mrs. Pidgeon. “This venerable person was 89
years of age, and what is remarkable she never had any other place of
residence than the one she died in, and expired upon the same bed on
which she was born.”
6.—Sir Jacob Astley’s hounds drew at Ringstead and chased a fox to within
a mile of Fakenham, a distance of 16 miles, when the hounds became at
fault. “Reynard was spied upon the tiles of a cottage, when a general
cry was raised to spare him. The huntsman dismounted and caught him as
he slipped off the tiles by the cottage door, and drove him in, when he
was secured and saved and taken home in a sack for another day’s sport.”
7.—A panorama illustrating Lord Exmouth’s victory over the Algerines was
exhibited in a wooden building specially erected on the Castle ditches,
Norwich. It was described as “the peristrephic or moving panorama,” and
was invented by the exhibitors, Messrs. Marshall.
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