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16.-A prize fight took place near Wymondham for 5 a side between Gales and Dann. ”After a hard milling contest of more than an hour, during which 70 rounds were fought without the least display of skill or science, Dann was obliged to give in.”
17.-Guild Day at Norwich. The Recorder, Aldermen, and Sheriffs went in their carriages to the mansion of the Mayor-elect (Mr. J. S. Patteson) in Magdalen Street, and partook of ”an elegant dejeune”; they next proceeded to the house of the Mayor (Mr. R. Hawkes), ”with whom they took some refreshment,” and then to the Cathedral, where the Mayor's Chaplain, the Rev. William Frederick Patteson, preached. George Steward, second son of Mr. Alderman Steward, delivered the Latin oration at the Free School porch. After the ceremony at the Guildhall Mr. Patteson entertained 650 guests at the Guild feast, and 500 at the ball at Chapel Field House.
20.-The House of Commons in Committee of Supply granted 2,000 to Capt.
Manby for his services in saving the lives of s.h.i.+pwrecked seamen.
24.-Died at Thetford, aged 70, Mr. Shelford Bidwell, who had served many times as Mayor of the borough, and was a great benefactor of the poor.
29.-Died at Acle, aged 59, Samuel Morris. ”He was generally known as 'Old Sam.' For many years he delivered letters from the post office there, and he must have travelled some thousands of miles on foot. On various occasions when he might have made the delivery on horseback he invariably walked, and being furnished with a red guard's coat he was frequently dignified with the appellation of the 'Scarlet Runner.'”
30.-Died in St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, aged 60, Matthew Joy. ”This poor man was known by the appellation of 'The Walking Baker,' and for the last eleven years of his life used to carry a large basket of bread, about eight stones weight, upon his shoulders to several villages, walking no less than 20 miles per day. He walked in all about 68,440 miles.”
JULY.
1.-At a meeting held at the Swan Inn, Norwich, at which Mr. Dalrymple presided, resolutions were pa.s.sed condemning the French invasion of Spain. A subscription was opened ”in aid of the suffering and heroic people of that country.”
11.-Died at Stiffkey, Col. Henry Loftus, of the Coldstream Guards, eldest son of General Loftus. His remains were interred in the chancel of Rainham Church.
12.*-”The antient pastime of heron hawking is still carried on in this county. Ten cast of hawks and four falconers, natives of Germany, to which country they repair annually in the autumn to catch a supply of hawks for the ensuing season, are kept at Didlington Hall, the seat of Major Wilson, near to which place is an extensive heronry.”
16.-Died at North Walsham, where he had some time resided for the benefit of his health, the Rev. Marmaduke Revell, aged 56. ”He was 23 years minister in the Methodist connexion, among whom he was a useful and zealous preacher of the Gospel, which he adorned by strict conformity to its precepts.”
19.-Mr. John Cross was elected a.s.sistant surgeon of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
22.-The Norfolk Rangers, under the command of Major Lord James Townshend, were inspected at Fakenham by Col. the Hon. John Wodehouse, his Majesty's Lieutenant for the county.
24.-A troop of the 15th Hussars arrived at Norwich to relieve the troop of the 1st Royal Dragoons, who marched for York.
26.-A machine exemplifying perpetual motion was advertised to be exhibited at Mrs. Chesnut's, St. Giles', Norwich. ”This grand machine,”
it was stated, ”has been going ever since it was invented, now upwards of seven years, and will continue to go without any a.s.sistance whatever by power of its own balance and pivots, or, in other words, if the materials it is made of would last for ever.” The Mayor made inquiries which proved the exhibition to be a deception, and prohibited its further stay in the city.
28.-Died, at the age of 110, Mr. John Lock, of Larling. ”He left behind him 130 children and grandchildren.”
AUGUST.
1.-The Norwich weavers held a demonstration in celebration of the success of their Spitalfields brethren in obtaining the decision of both Houses of Parliament upon the Spitalfields Act. The clubs met in Chapel Field, and afterwards went in procession through the streets.
2.*-”Mr. Mueller, from the Haymarket Theatre, has succeeded Mr. Phillips as leader of the orchestra at the Theatre Royal, Norwich.”
-Died at Winchester, the Right Hon. Charles Frederick Powlett Townshend, Lord Bayning, of Honingham, aged 38. His remains were conveyed to the King's Head Inn, Wymondham, on the 12th, and were interred at Honingham on the 13th. His lords.h.i.+p was succeeded by his only brother, the Hon.
and Rev. Henry Townshend, Baron Bayning.
6.-Married, by special licence, by the Lord Bishop of Norwich, at the parish church, Costessey, Thomas Alexander Fraser, of Lovat and Strichen, to Charlotte Georgina, eldest daughter of Sir George Jerningham, Bart., Costessey Hall. The marriage ceremony was previously performed in the chapel at the Hall, according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, by the Rev. Frederick Husenbeth, domestic chaplain to Sir George. Soon after the service the bride and bridegroom left Costessey in their travelling barouche and four for Beaufort Castle, Inverness.
-In the presence of Lord Suffield, Col. Wodehouse, Mr. T. W. c.o.ke, M.P., Mr. Wodehouse, M.P., and other gentlemen, experiments were made on Mundesley beach with a new life-saving apparatus invented by Capt. Manby.
It consisted of ”an airtight tin case encompa.s.sing the body beneath the armpits.”