3.--Thorogood, the driver of "The Times" coach, gave up the reins on this
date, having held them since July 14th, 1822, "during which time he drove
the coach every day to and from the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, and the Swan
with Two Necks, Lad Lane, London, a distance of 116 miles without any
accident of consequence, a task which we believe was never before
performed by any man. In the above space of time he travelled 182,352
miles, independent of the distance he regularly walked, which could not
have been less than a mile each day, as he always slept at the Blue Boar,
Aldgate, when in London, and at the Bell, Orford Hill, when in Norwich."
Thorogood married on November 8th Miss M. Westall, of London.
4.--H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, who was staying with Admiral Windham at
Felbrigg, visited Cromer, when the inhabitants removed the horses from
his carriage and dragged it through the town.
7.--According to annual custom, a grand _battue_ took place at Holkham,
when upwards of 700 head of game were shot. "Game has not been found so
plentiful as in former seasons. The deficiency was in hares, of which
not more than 220 have been shot in one day. In previous years upwards
of 500 hares have been killed in the park in one day."
12.--The Norwich Society "for promoting the immediate mitigation and
final abolition of slavery" was established at a meeting held at St.
Andrew's Hall, under the presidency of the Mayor (Mr. T. S. Day).
14.--Married at Minto, Roxburghshire, Mr. J. P. Boileau, jun., eldest son
of Mr. J. P. Boileau, of Mortlake, and of Tacolneston Hall, to Lady
Catherine Elliott, daughter of the Earl of Minto.
--Swaffham Coursing Meeting commenced with a very small attendance. "We
have to regret the retirement of Lord Rivers, whose advanced age and
infirm state of health have obliged him to relinquish his favourite
pursuits. The superior greyhounds his lordship used to bring secured him
the victory in almost every match he made--indeed, he was allowed to
possess the best breed of greyhounds in the kingdom. The noble lord,
during has coursing career, has been the winner of fourteen cups, and is
the only member since the establishment of the Swaffham Coursing Meeting
in 1779 who has won five cups at Swaffham, and this during the last
eleven years, his lordship first entering in 1813. His greyhounds sold
at Tattersall's in May last for 1,029 guineas; with seven horses and two
dog carts the amount was brought up to 1,339.5 guineas, which sum his
lordship generously presented to his servants. One dog, Rex, who has
never been beaten, and also a bitch, as companion to this nonpariel, are
retained by Lord Rivers as a memento of his celebrated kennel."
21.--A meeting of the Norwich and Norfolk Law Library was held at the
Guildhall, Norwich, at which were adopted the rules and regulations drawn
up by a committee appointed on December 3rd, 1824. The books were
ordered to be deposited in a room in Institution Court, Upper Haymarket.
23.--The Norwich Association for Assisting in the Detection and
Prosecution of Criminal Offenders was instituted at a meeting held at the
Guildhall.
26.--A meeting was held at the Angel Inn, Norwich, at which an
association was formed for the protection of agriculture. It was known
as the East Norfolk Agricultural Society, and Mr. Jehosaphat Postle was
elected president.
--A corn market was re-established at Wells-next-the-Sea.
28.--The first annual meeting of subscribers to the Norfolk and Norwich
Museum was held at the Guildhall, under the presidency of Sir James E.
Smith. Rules for the management of the institution were adopted.
30.--St. Andrew's Day was celebrated by the Scots Greys at the Cavalry
Barracks, Norwich. A soldier dressed as St. Andrew was escorted from the
city boundary to the barracks by a party of forty troopers in Highland
dress, who called at the house of the Mayor, in Pottergate Street, and
danced a reel. The festival was afterwards kept in a convivial manner at
the barracks.