11.--The Day Norwich and London New Post Coach was advertised to perform
the journey between Norwich and the Metropolis in 14 hours. It started
from the Rampant Horse Inn every morning at six o'clock, and arrived the
same evening at the Black Bull Inn and Spread Eagle Inn, Gracechurch
Street. It left London at six o'clock on the following morning. The
proprietors were Richard Gurney, Ann Nelson and Sons, T. and J. Boyce,
Samuel Bright, and William Jones.
14.--The Duke of York arrived at Quidenham Hall on a visit to the Earl of
Albemarle for a week's pheasant shooting.
16.--In the Court of King's Bench, Benjamin Branford, Joshua Forby, James
Jessup, and William Quant, convicted at the Norfolk Assizes of conspiring
to falsely accuse Mr. Henry Goggs, of Whissonsett, of a serious offence,
were sentenced, Branford to twelve months', Forby to six months', and
Jessup and Quant to three months' imprisonment in Norwich Castle.
24.--Died, at Thursford, Sir George Chad, Bart., aged 84.
27.--The Marquis Cornwallis, Earl and Lady Chatham, and other
notabilities, passed through Norwich on their way from Blickling Hall to
Henham Park.
30.--The Duke of Gloucester, the Lord Bishop of Norwich, and the Earl and
Countess of Albemarle, visited Mr. T. W. Coke at Holkham.