3.*--"At the auction mart last week Mr. Hoggart sold the well-known
estate called St. Andrew's Hall, Old Buckenham, a fine mansion house, and
532 acres of land, at 29,300 pounds."
10.--It was announced that Mr. Smith, manager of Norwich Theatre, had
taken of the patentee, Mr. Wilkins, a seven years' lease of that and the
other houses in the circuit.
--Mr. Mathews commenced a three nights' engagement at the Assembly Rooms,
Norwich.
17.*--"The expense of erecting the house of industry at Wicklewood in
1777 was defrayed by a tontine called the 'Forehoe Tontine,' consisting
of 110 shares at 100 pounds each, bearing an interest of 5 pounds per
cent. Fifty years have now elapsed, and in 1827 there are still 50
survivors out of the original number."
25.--Died at Prospect Place, Gorleston, aged 65, Mr. F. F. Hope, for 30
years paymaster of the East Norfolk Militia. "Previously he was an
officer of the line, saw much service during the great American War, was
at the siege of Yorktown in Virginia in 1781, and there taken prisoner by
the combined Armies of France and America, with the whole of the British
Army under Lord Cornwallis."