1.--At the Norfolk Assizes, held at Thetford, before Lord Chief Baron
Macdonald, was tried the action, Stracey _v._ Davy. The plaintiff was
lord of the Manor of Rackheath, and the defendant a tenant of Mr. John
Morse, jun. The action, which was for trespass, was brought for the
purpose of ascertaining certain rights set up by the defendant. Davy
sought to establish the privilege of sheep walk over that part of
Mousehold Heath then belonging to the parish of Rackheath. He claimed
severally the right of feeding 500, 400, and 300 sheep, and also the
right of depasturing his sheep levant and couchant, and in various other
modes. The special jury found a verdict for the defendant, and confirmed
his right of feeding 500 sheep at six score to the hundred.
3.--The annual Venison Feast was held at the Red Lion, Fakenham, to
celebrate Lord Nelson's victory of the Nile.
4.--The Norwich parochial Volunteer Associations assembled at St.
Andrew's Hall, and afterwards marched to the Market Place, where Capt.
William Herring, the commanding officer for the day, read a letter from
the Lord Lieutenant, requesting the men to be prepared in case of
invasion.
--"This day, from five in the morning till ten at night, heavy
cannonading was distinctly heard by the Rev. Mr. Burton and several of
his parishioners at Horsford, which was at the time supposed to be the
cannonading from Lord Nelson's fleet before Boulogne."
15.--Henry Lawn, aged 41, executed on the Castle Hill, Norwich, for horse
stealing. "He denied to the last that he was guilty. He left a wife and
six children. He would have enjoyed a considerable property, which the
present possessor has entailed upon his children."
24.--The Supplementary Militia was re-embodied. During this month
meetings were held in different parishes in city and county to discuss
the means to be adopted in case of invasion. The clergy in country
parishes took account of the live and dead stock that could be removed,
and of the number of waggons and carts to be made use of. The drilling
of Yeomanry and Volunteer corps became general.