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
—*(Advt.) “A main will be fought at the Fleece Inn, Wells, on Monday and
Tuesday, the 19th and 20th inst., between the gentlemen of Norfolk and
Wells. To show 31 cocks and 10 byes, and to fight for 10 gs. the battle
and 100 the odd; to make four in goes. Feeders: Fisher for Norfolk, Lamb
for Wells.”
10.*—“During the last eleven months, the period of Miss Harriett Howell’s
visits to this city, three schools have been established in Norwich, in
which no fewer than 294 children are now educated on the plan advocated
by Mr. J. Lancaster.”
—*“A drover, near Norwich, has attended the market at Smithfield for 25
years, in which time he has ridden on those journeys alone 126,000
miles.”
—A court martial was held on his Majesty’s ship Utile on a seaman
belonging to the Désirée, “at his own request,” for striking an officer
and using mutinous language. He was sentenced to death.
19.—At the Norfolk Assizes, held at Thetford, Thomas William Middleton,
for embezzling money the property of Messrs. Gurney and Co., by whom he
was employed as clerk, at Fakenham, was sentenced to 14 years’
transportation.
—The panorama, by Serries, of the town and port of Boulogne “with the
flotilla, designed to invade this country, at anchor in the outer road,”
was exhibited at Harper’s Pantheon, Norwich.
22.—Died in St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, aged 57, Nathaniel Eastaugh, the
common crier, and one of the Mayor’s beadles, “who except one year held
the bell from 1780 up to the time of his death.” He was succeeded by
Anthony Bailey.
23.—Mr. Joseph Lancaster visited Norwich, and at the Theatre gave
lectures on his system of education. At a meeting at the Guildhall on
April 17, a free school for boys, on Mr. Lancaster’s plan, was
established by public subscription.
—Died in St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, aged 72, David Kinnebrook, for 40
years master of one of the charity schools, “who never till his last
illness absented himself from the school for a single day.”
24.—A large meeting of landowners, occupiers, and Scottish drovers was
held at the Rampant Horse Inn, to discuss the right of the Corporation of
Norwich to levy tolls upon cattle sold or exhibited for sale at the
weekly mart on the Castle Hill. A deputation waited upon the Mayor and
the Market Committee, and on April 11th a further meeting, presided over
by Sir James Beevor, was held for the purpose of defending any action
that might be brought by the Corporation to recover tolls.
APRIL.
3.—For the benefit of the Norwich Theatrical Fund, a performance of “The
English Fleet in the year 1342,” and of “the grand seriocomic pantomime,
called ‘Don Juan, or the Libertine destroyed,’” was given at the Theatre
Royal.
12.—Died, aged 60, Mr. Thomas Barber, attorney, 27 years secretary of the
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
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