16.--Dr. Yelloly resigned his office as a physician of the Norfolk and
Norwich. Hospital. Dr. Edward Lubbock was elected to fill the vacancy
on July 7th.
16.--The case of the King _v._ the Mayor and Recorder of Thetford came
before the Court of King's Bench. The defendants were required to show
why they should not hold a weekly Court of Pleas at the Guildhall,
according to the charter of Queen Elizabeth, which directed that the
Court should proceed according to the rules and customs of a similar
Court at Norwich. It was objected that the affidavits did not show the
existence of the Norwich Court at the date of the Thetford charter, but
only that a certain Court of Pleas was granted to that city by a charter
of Charles II. On the other side it was alleged that the Thetford Court
had actually been held within fifty years. Lord Tenterden: The charter
of Charles II. may have confirmed a previous grant. We think the
objection has been answered. The rule must be absolute.
18.--Robert Woodrow, gamekeeper to Col. Peel, was summoned before the
magistrates at Thetford for seizing the rods of two persons fishing in
the river of that town. It was contended that Col. Peel merely hired the
manor of Mr. A. Baring, and that he could not show a right to the
fishing, the river being navigable, and, as such, _prima facie_ public to
the inhabitants, who had immemorially enjoyed the right. The magistrates
decided to the contrary on both points, and dismissed the complaint.
19.--Guild Day was observed at Norwich as usual. The Mayor-elect (Mr. S.
W. Stevenson) entertained 830 guests at the Guild feast, and gave a ball
at the Assembly Rooms in the evening.
26.--An address, congratulating the King "on his happy escape from the
late atrocious attack on his Royal person at Ascot," was presented to his
Majesty at a Levee at St. James's Palace by the Mayor (Mr. S. W.
Stevenson), the Deputy-Mayor (Sir J. H. Yallop), and Lieut.-Col. Harvey,
on behalf of the Corporation of Norwich.
30.--The electors of the division of East Norfolk, constituted under the
provisions of the new Reform Act, met at Norwich for the purpose of
adopting candidates. The friends of Mr. Peach, M.P., and Lord Henry
Cholmondeley, M.P., the Tory candidates, met at the Rampant Horse Inn,
and the supporters of Mr. William W. Windham and Major Keppel, the Whig
candidates, at the Angel Inn.