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
3.—Mr. Robert Alderson was elected Governor of the Norwich Court of
Guardians, in the place of Mr. Robert Partridge, resigned.
6.—Mrs. and Miss Robertson, of the Close, Norwich, and the Misses Doune
were returning to the city from Hockering, when they were stopped by a
highwayman near Cossey Wood. He was armed with pistols, and, after
taking all their valuable articles of jewellery, rode off.
10.—An Expedition, consisting of 150 transports, sailed from Yarmouth for
the Baltic, for the protection of Sweden. The Mars, Admiral Keats, the
Audacious, Capt. Lukin, and other warships formed the convoy; and Sir
John Moore, with Major-Generals Paget and Murray, had command of the
troops.
21.—The coach house, brew house, and offices at Blickling Hall, with 180
stand of arms, were destroyed by fire.
JUNE.
4.—The Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures awarded
their silver medal to Mrs. Coppin, of St. Stephen’s Street, Norwich, for
her oil painting, “The Gamesters.”
—An annual ploughing match was inaugurated at Ellingham by the Rev. Wm.
Johnson, to encourage the use of oxen in husbandry.
6.—The Norwich Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, Col. Harvey, 500 strong,
proceeded to Yarmouth for garrison duly, and returned to Norwich on the
18th.
13.—A cricket match, for 50 guineas a side, was played at Swaffham,
between the gentlemen of Swaffham and the gentlemen of Shipdham, and was
won by the latter.
16.—Died, at Norwich, in this 68th year, Sir Roger Kerrison, banker, and
for many years Receiver-General for Norfolk. He was an alderman of the
Mancroft Ward, served the office of High Sheriff in 1800, and was twice
Mayor of Norwich, 1778-1802.
20.—Holkham Sheep Shearing commenced. The sweepstakes of 28 subscribers,
at 10s. 6d. each, for naming the weight of Mr. Coke’s three-shear
half-bred merino wether, was won by Mr. Thomas More, of Watham, who
guessed the exact weight, 132 lbs. A patent dibbling iron, which
deposited the seed at the time the holes were struck, exhibited by the
Rev. Mr. Barker, of Woodbridge, was the winning implement. Mr. F. Smith,
of Norwich, exhibited specimens of ladies’ merino dresses, scarves,
shawls, stockings, coating, and cassimers, most of which were made from
the wool of Mr. Coke’s sheep. “A pair of worstead stockings were of so
delicate a fabric that the two stockings passed at the same time through
a lady’s ring. A manufacturer had ordered a dozen pair at 18 guineas.”
21.—The Guild feast given at St. Andrew’s Hall by the Mayor of Norwich,
Mr. Starling Day, jun., was attended by 580 guests.
JULY.
12.—At the Norwich Quarter Sessions, the Norwich Flour Company appealed
against the assessment of their premises in St. Andrew’s. The company
was described as an unprofitable concern. The assessment was reduced.
—A member of the Swaffham Cricket Club played and beat, with great ease
in one innings, “six players of professional celebrity in that town.”
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