5.--Died, aged 82, Mr. Edward Roger Pratt, of Ryston House, near Downham
Market, "of whom it may be said that he exhibited in every relation of
life a perfect picture of the old English gentleman." On the death of
Sir Jacob Astley, in 1817, he unsuccessfully contested the county.
12.--Lord Suffield's staghounds met on Crostwight Common. The stag
crossed the road to Beeston Hall, and ran thence by Rackheath to Wroxham,
Salhouse, Woodbastwick, Ranworth, Burlingham, Upton, and Acle; crossed
the Bure and made for Stokesby, Thrigby, and Caister, going within a mile
of Yarmouth. He then took to Breydon, where he was secured. Distance
from point to point, 18 miles; country covered, from 25 to 30 miles.
16.--At the meeting of the county magistrates, at Norwich, it was decided
that in future the Quarter Sessions be adjourned to Swaffham instead of
to Lynn.
17.--Died at Diss, in his 83rd year, Mr. Meadows Taylor. "It is a
singular fact that Mr. Taylor and his uncle, the late Mr. Meadows, had
carried on business as solicitors in the same town and the same house for
the long period of 97 years."
19.--Died, Mr. Thomas Bray, farmer, of Diss, aged 79. "He was the sole
proprietor of Bray's Diss waggon, which has travelled over the road under
the same name for upwards of a century. He was interred on the 26th,
when the hearse was followed by his children and descendants in eight
gigs."
22.--Henry Pettett, a convict under sentence of fifteen years'
transportation for horse stealing, broke out of his cell at Norwich
Castle. "He made a rope of his blanket, which he tied round a ring in
his cell and the rest round his irons, to prevent their clanking, and let
himself down into the arch. Thence he proceeded to the top of the
Castle, but suddenly falling down he pitched his head into a bucket, by
which he was somewhat seriously injured."
28.--In a letter addressed to the officers, non-commissioned officers,
and privates of the Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry, Lord Sondes announced that
the Government had disbanded a great part of the Yeomanry force raised
under precisely similar conditions to their own. He added that he had
resigned his commission as Major-Commandant, and advised the regiment to
disband themselves and not wait to be dismissed. The Lord Lieutenant
afterwards appointed Capt. Loftus to the vacant command; and the Dereham
troop, partially disorganized by Lord Sondes' resignation, was re-formed
in the Eastern division as the Hingham troop, and placed under the
command of Captain Ives. The uniform of the regiment at this date "was
like that of the 2nd Life Guards, with silver instead of gold lace."
--Sir James Flower, of Eccles Hall, accompanied by Lady Flower, arrived
in Norwich to attend the Judges of Assize as High Sheriff of Norfolk. He
was escorted to the Swan Inn by a cavalcade of farmers. At Attleborough
and Wymondham crowds of people welcomed the High Sheriff with bands of
music. Throughout the Assize week he gave official and other dinners,
upon a scale of princely magnificence, and the festivities, for such they
were, concluded with a bespeak at the Theatre, where "Mr. Martin sang the
song of the Eccles Hunt, 'The Apple-green Coats with the Collars of
Blue.'"
30.--Died at Little Walsingham, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, aged 82. "She
was one of the earliest supporters of the Wesleyan Methodists in Lynn,
and often enjoyed the honour of entertaining the venerable founder of the
society, the late Rev. John Wesley, Dr. Coke, and others."
31.*--"Last week was buried, at Diss church, Susanna Baldry, widow, in
the 104th year of her age. She was born in the year 1734, in the seventh
of George II., and was a subject of four Kings and a Queen."
--*"We regret to announce the death, in his 77th year, of Lord Berners,
so long known as the sporting Col. Wilson, of Newmarket. His lordship's
falconry establishment at Didlington was also well known, as he gave
annually several flights of hawks at the Newmarket meetings." His horse
Phosphorus won the Derby in 1837. His lordship was succeeded in his
title and estates by his brother, the Rev. Henry Wilson.