4.*--"At Gretna Green, Mr. Thomas Bunn, corn merchant, to Miss Sarah
Cobb, second daughter of Mr. John Cobb, of Yarmouth." The parties were
re-married at Gorleston by the Rev. Mr. Forster, on June 4.
7.--Mr. J. Youngs, of St. Peter Hungate, Norwich, was carried in a sedan
chair to record his vote at the Mayor's election. On his return home he
immediately expired. He was 85 years old.
8.--Died, at the Grotto, Thetford, Mr. John Ellis, "long known as an
industrious collector of antiquities, fossils, foreign birds, &c., of
which he had a large and very curious cabinet."
17.--The first recorded "speech day" at Norwich Grammar School. It was
described as "the first speech day of the kind ever held at Norwich or at
this school," and its inception was due to the fact that "the Latin
oration which in former times used to be delivered at the school porch on
Guild Day," had been "for the last two years superseded by the
non-observance of that annual festival."
19.*--"Died, last week in St. Clement's, the Widow Herring, in her 106th
year."
--The officers of the Norwich Court Leet seized the defective measures of
Edward Phillipps, a retail corn dealer, in King Street. The offender was
fined by the court, who ordered the forfeiture of two of the measures.
20.--Mr. Bowles, "formerly a respectable performer in the Norwich Company
of Comedians," preached at the Octagon Chapel to a numerous congregation.
21.--Opening day of Holkham Sheep Shearing. It was stated in the course
of the proceedings, that "a very large quantity of bones is collected in
Norfolk and exported from Yarmouth to distant counties, where, after
being ground or crushed, they are used as manure by farmers." "Why," it
was asked, "should not Norfolk and Suffolk farmers lay their bones in
their own counties?"