5.--The West Norfolk Militia marched in three divisions from
Berwick-upon-Tweed to Edinburgh Castle, where they entered permanent
quarters.
10.--Charles Harper, 26, and Edmond Impeon, 21, were executed on Castle
Hill, Norwich, for a burglary at the dwelling-house of Mr. John Butler,
of Barney. "After hanging the usual time their bodies were delivered to
their afflicted relatives, and by them conveyed home for interment."
17.--Mary Turrell, apprehended on suspicion of being the mother of a
newly-born child, whose dead body was found in Vipond's pond at
Harleston, committed suicide by poisoning. The coroner's jury returned a
verdict of _felo de se_, "and on the same evening about seven o'clock she
was buried in the high road with a stake driven through her body in the
presence of a vast concourse of people."
25.--Died, in his 67th year, Mr. James Bullard, many years master of the
Bethel Hospital, Norwich. His death resulted from a wound in the
stomach, inflicted with a scythe by a patient named Jonathan Morley, who
was engaged in mowing the lawn in the inner court. The coroner's jury
returned a verdict of wilful murder, and Morley was committed for trial
at the Assizes, when he was ordered to be kept in custody, "being insane
at the time he committed the act." In December, 1816, an order was
received from the Secretary of State for the Home Department for the
removal of the prisoner from Norwich gaol to the new Criminal Lunatic
Asylum in St. George's Fields, London.
27.--The "light machine" commenced running between Wells and Norwich. It
set out from Wells on Tuesdays and Fridays at nine o'clock in the
morning, and travelled through Fakenham and Bawdeswell to the Bell Inn,
Orford Hill, Norwich. The coach returned by the same road on Wednesdays
and Saturdays. Mr. J. Sizeland was the proprietor.
29.--The Duke of Cumberland arrived at Yarmouth, and embarked on board
the Nymphen frigate for the Continent.