5.--Haddock's exhibition of automata was opened in the Great Room, Davey
Place, Norwich.
7.--At the Holkham Sheep Shearing, which commenced on this date, the
address voted at Wells-next-the-Sea on June 18th was presented to Mr. T.
W. Coke, M.P., who, in reply, said he did not attribute blame to the
poorer classes who had been deluded into the belief that he was their
enemy, but he did blame the Mayor of Norwich, who, in his official
capacity, should have prevented what had taken place. These remarks led
to a very long and acrimonious newspaper correspondence.
9.--The Rev. Charles Nourse Wodehouse was installed a prebendary of
Norwich Cathedral, in place of the Rev. John Pretyman, D.D., who died at
Lincoln on June 5th.
15.--The salt marshes near Wells-next-the-Sea were inundated by a high
tide during a northerly gale, and nearly 300 sheep, the property of
Messrs. Tuthill, Moore, and John Blomfield, of Warham, were drowned.
--A meeting of the gentry, clergy, and yeomen of the Hundreds of
Guiltcross and Shropham was held at East Harling, under the presidency of
the Earl of Albemarle, when an address was voted to Mr. Coke, M.P., and
presented to him at Thetford Wool Fair on July 26th.
19.--Thomas Carter was publicly whipped in Norwich Market Place for
stealing a cow.
--At the Norwich Court of Mayoralty, the Mayor stated that complaints had
been made to him of offences committed in the city by bakers, foggers,
and others, exercising their trades on Sunday. The Court gave notice
that it was not lawful "to make or bake any bread, rolls, or cakes of any
sort or kind on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday," nor to deliver
them "at any time after half past one of the clock in the afternoon of
that day."
24.--Skipper, the pedestrian, undertook for a wager of 25 guineas to walk
from Norwich to Thetford and back, a distance of 55 miles, in 12 hours.
"He walked 54 miles, but having only four minutes to perform the last
mile, gave in."