2.--The freedom of the city was presented to the Hon. and Very Rev. G.
Pellew, D.D., Dean of Norwich.
6.--Died at Dulwich College, aged 66, the Rev. Ozias Thurston Linley,
A.B., a junior fellow of that institution, and formerly a Minor Canon of
Norwich Cathedral. He was the eldest son of Mr. Thomas Linley, patentee
of Drury Lane Theatre, and brother of Mrs. Sheridan, the first wife of
Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
21.--The elections for the Common Council commenced at Norwich. "They
were conducted upon correct principles, the voters were left free from
the temptation of corruption, and the result was the renewed ascendancy
of the 'Orange and Purple' party, who won the representation of three
wards out of four."
24.--The grave was discovered, in the south aisle of St. Stephen's
Church, of Robert Browne, a former Mayor of Norwich. Nothing remained
but some pieces of bones. Upon a stone was the inscription: "Of your
charitie praye for the soule of Robert Browne, Esquire, some time Mayor
of this city, who died 1534."
--The Norfolk Lent Assizes (adjourned from Thetford) were held at Norwich
for the first time. Mr. Justice Alderson, an honorary freeman of the
city, was one of the judges.
25.--At the Norfolk Lent Assizes, at Norwich, before Mr. Justice
Alderson, Richard Nockolds was indicted for setting fire to stacks, the
property of William Blake, at Swanton Abbott, and Robert Hunt, Josiah
Davidson, and David Davidson were charged as accessaries. The jury found
the prisoners not guilty. On the 26th they were indicted for setting
fire to a stack the property of Richard Ducker, of the same place.
Nockolds was found guilty, and sentenced to death; Josiah Davidson was
convicted of being an accessary before the fact, recommended to mercy,
and afterwards respited; Hunt and David Davidson were acquitted.
Nockolds was executed on the Castle Hill, Norwich, on April 9th. His
body was subsequently exhibited at his cottage opposite the Barrack
gates, Pockthorpe, "and a considerable sum of money was in this way
raised for the widow."
26.--A Bill "for the better management of the Poor in the several
parishes and hamlets of the city of Norwich," had, it was announced on
this date, been presented in the House of Commons. The principal object
of the measure was to abolish the right of the Corporation to elect
Guardians. It was read a first time in April, passed through its
remaining stages during the first Session of the new Parliament, and the
first meeting of the Court of Guardians elected under the new Act was
held at the Guildhall on October 4th.