12.--Married, at his lordship's house, Charles Street, Berkeley Square,
London, the Right Hon. the Earl of Craven to Miss Louisa Brunton, of
Covent Garden Theatre, and daughter of John Brunton, Esq., formerly of
Norwich, who gave the bride away. "The Earl is in his 37th and the fair
bride in her 25th year." Mr. Brunton was for many years manager of the
Norwich Theatre, and Miss Louisa Brunton was a favourite performer there.
13.--Died, in St. Simon's, Norwich, aged 86, Mrs. Mary Mack. "She lived
several years in the service of the late Mr. W. Tilyard, of Poringland,
during which time she constantly travelled the number of 2,920 miles
annually, which in ten years amounted to 29,220, the house being fully
four miles from Norwich, and her master, who was a very eccentric
character, never failed sending her every day (Sunday not excepted) for
such things as his whimsical and capricious fancy suggested he stood in
need of."
--Died, at Claxton, Mrs. Eliza Norton, in her 101st year.
19.*--"A telegraph or signal station is on the point of being erected
upon the hills leading from Norwich to Thorpe. It is to be commanded by
a naval officer, and the object of it is to open and maintain a prompt
communication with Yarmouth on the one side, and with the telegraphs
between Norwich and London on the other." Messages were afterwards sent
from the Admiralty to Yarmouth in 17 minutes. The chain of communication
was by Strumpshaw, Thorpe Hills, Honingham, Carlton, and Harling, and
thence by way of Thetford and Bury St. Edmund's, across Newmarket Heath,
to London.
21.--Experiments were made at Norwich, with the view of testing the
practicability of General Money's proposal to Government for mounting
cannon on waggons for the protection of vessels on the coast. The
Artillery officers at Woolwich gave General Money credit for his
invention, and many ship owners and masters of vessels approved the plan.
An Act was passed this year for enabling Rear-Admiral Bentinck, tenant
for life under the will of his late father, Mr. John Albert Bentinck, to
charge his estates in the county of Norfolk with the sums therein
mentioned, for embanking, improving, and increasing the same estates by
the means therein mentioned.
1808.