2.*--(Advt. ) "A stage waggon sets out from the warehouse, Tombland,
Norwich, every Friday evening, and arrives at Bury every Saturday,
returning from Bury every Wednesday, and arrives at Norwich early on
Friday morning. The London waggons through Cambridge every Tuesday and
Friday. The Yorkshire waggons come regularly twice a week." (Messrs.
Marsh were the proprietors of the Norwich waggons. A similar service of
waggons was also run at about this date by Mack, of Norwich. )
4.--The King's birthday was observed as usual. "The prisoners of the
city gaol return thanks to the Mayor and Corporation for the excellent
dinner of roast beef and plum puddings, with plenty of strong ale.
Likewise to numerous unknown passengers for their gifts to the box which
is carried about every Saturday afternoon by a man appointed by the court
to attend on them. And they humbly request the charitably disposed to
put their contributions into the box themselves, which is locked up by
the governor, and its contents equally distributed by him. They have
also another box outside the gaol which is opened every quarter."
--Died at his house in Pall Mall, aged 60, the Right Hon. William
Windham, of Felbrigg. Three days before the event he predicted that he
would expire on the King's birthday. He represented Norwich in three
successive Parliaments--from 1784 to 1802. The remains of the deceased
statesman arrived in Norwich on their way to Felbrigg on the 10th. The
body lay in state at the Maid's Head Inn until the morning of the 11th,
when the journey to Felbrigg was resumed, and the funeral took place
there in the afternoon. In the funeral procession at the church was "a
man bearing a false coffin."
5.--A cricket match was played between the Norwich Club and the officers
of the Wiltshire Regiment, on the Town Close ground, Norwich. Norwich,
134; Wiltshire Regiment, 49-43. The return match was played on the same
ground on the 14th. Norwich, 71-150; Wiltshire Regiment, 57-53.
10.--At the burial of a woman, named Bumpstead, at Thurlton, "it was not
a little singular that the husband and an ass walked to church next the
corpse, and also back again to the house, as chief mourners."
11.--A prize fight took place at Limpenhoe between John Green, of
Beighton, and David William Rushmer, of Thurlton. "In the first seven
rounds the latter received seven knock-down blows; but in the eighth he
gave the other such a violent blow that he knocked him out of time and
won."
16.*--"Mr. Alderman Yallop, of Norwich, is the fortunate holder of an
eighth of the ticket, 1,537, which drew a prize of 1,000 pounds on Friday
last. This is the fourth capital prize Mr. Yallop has had a share of in
the different lotteries."
19.--Guild-day at Norwich. The Mayor, Mr. John Steward, entertained 750
guests at dinner at St. Andrew's Hall, and 400 attended the ball at
Chapel Field House, where dancing was kept up until two o'clock next
morning. "Several friends of conviviality kept the jovial spirit alive
at the hall till after that late or rather early hour."
25.--Holkham Sheep Shearing commenced. One of the implements exhibited
was "a fumigating machine on two wheels which, in turning, worked a pair
of bellows that blew into an iron cylinder filled with burning sulphur,
and shavings or sawdust, and perforated at the bottom, which, when pushed
over the land, suffocated the turnip flies, cankers, &c., or caught them
on a tarred cover fixed over the head of the cylinder." This remarkable
contrivance was exhibited by a Mr. Plenty, of London.