2.--A county meeting, presided over by the High Sheriff, was held at the
Shirehouse, Norwich, when resolutions, stating the injury that would be
sustained by a continuation of the prohibition of the use of grain in the
distilleries, were agreed to. A committee of landowners and corn growers
was appointed to adopt measures for the protection of the interests of
agriculture. (The Distillery Bill was thrown out by the House of Lords.)
7.--Died, at Norton Place, near Lincoln, in his 78th year, Mr. John
Harrison, twice member of Parliament for Thetford.
10.--Died, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in his 79th year, the
Rev. Neville Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, and rector of North Runcton.
12.--Died, the Rev. Philip Wodehouse, brother of Lord Wodehouse, and a
Prebendary of Norwich Cathedral, aged 66. In digging the grave for the
interment of the deceased, beneath the organ loft at the Cathedral, the
workmen found, two feet beneath the surface, a stone coffin enclosing a
wooden shell containing the body of Dean Croft, who died in 1670. "His
remains were found apparently in a perfect state, excepting the tip of
the nose, and the shroud was a little discoloured."
16.--Robert Waller and John Kerrison, who were in the permanent
employment of Mr. Lindley, of Catton, were committed to Aylsham Bridewell
for one month's hard labour, for "illegally combining to alter and lessen
the usual time of his labourers going and being at work."
17.--Died, aged 62, John Thompson, lamp lighter of Norwich. "His lamp of
life being out, and all his oil consumed, he was by his own request
buried at St. Martin-at-Palace at night, all his brethren of the ladder
and torch attending in the funeral procession with their flambeaux to
light him to his long home, in the presence of thousands assembled on the
plain."