7.--William Brownsell, many years in the service of Mr. William Mason, of
Necton, was accidentally shot in his master's plantation by a spring gun.
He lay in dreadful agony all night and died soon after being found next
morning.
15.--A private watch instituted and maintained by the inhabitants of St.
Stephen's, Norwich, commenced its duties.
--A prize fight took place near Mattishall between Mike Fenn and John
Short, of Norwich. "After 14 rounds Fenn was so dreadfully beaten that
he was carried off the ground in a state of insensibility." Two thousand
persons were present.
20.*--"Died at East Dereham last week a poor woman of the name of Rumble,
aged 103 years. She retained her faculties till within a month of her
decease."