2.--Shore's menagerie was exhibited on the Castle Ditches, Norwich.
--*"Died at Yarmouth, Mrs. Elizabeth Campling, in her 101st year."
3.--Died at North Walsham, Mary Cook, aged 101.
5.--One hundred "bankers" from Bedfordshire arrived at North Walsham and
commenced digging the North Walsham and Dilham Canal. "The first spade
of earth was taken out by Mr. William Youard, the band striking up 'God
save the King.'"
--A prize fight took place between Camplin and Murrell, of Norwich, on a
meadow near Thorpe, for 10 pounds aside. Murrell was the winner.
7.--The Archdeacon of Norwich convened a meeting of clergy at the Maid's
Head Inn, Norwich, at which a petition to the House of Commons was
adopted stating that the signatories were not in agreement with their
brethren who had petitioned Parliament in opposition to Roman Catholic
claims. Seventy signatures were appended. The other petition against
the Bill for conceding the claims of the Roman Catholics was signed by
the Bishop of Norwich and 200 clergy. A similar petition was adopted by
the Corporation on May 3rd by thirty-three votes against six.--The
intelligence that the Emancipation Bill had been rejected by the House of
Lords was received in Norwich on May 19th with the ringing of the bells
of St. Peter Mancroft and of the other churches in the city.
16.--Died at Ryslip, near Uxbridge, the Right Hon. Lady Wodehouse, aged
77. She was the only surviving daughter of the Hon. Charles Berkeley, of
Bruton Abbey, Somersetshire, niece of Lord Berkeley of Stratton, and the
last of that branch of the Berkeley family. Her ladyship's remains were
interred at Kimberley on May 27th, when the funeral procession was headed
by fifty mounted tenants on the estate.
18.--A meeting of the citizens was held at St Andrew's Hall, Norwich, by
requisition, at which resolutions were adopted asking the legislature "to
undertake at the earliest opportunity such a revision of the Corn Laws as
may secure cultivators of the soil from a recurrence of those ruinous
fluctuations in price which the present system has occasioned, and at the
same time complete that liberal commercial policy in which progress has
already been made." A petition based on the resolution was prepared and
presented to Parliament. It received 14,385 signatures.
21.--Married at St. Giles' Church, Norwich, by the Rev. C. J. Chapman,
Lieut. Charles Thurtell, R.N., third son of Mr. Thomas Thurtell, alderman
of Norwich, to Mrs. Dunham, of Chapel Field.