10.--Died at Norwich, Mr. Thomas Turner, "a well-known amateur on the
river." "Agreeable to the wishes expressed by the deceased, he was
conveyed from Carrow to Thorpe on board a sailing-boat, from which he was
carried on the shoulders of six boating men in blue jackets and white
trousers to his last resting-place in Thorpe churchyard."
16.--Van Amburgh's Circus and Menagerie were exhibited in a large marquee
erected in Chapel Field, Norwich.
17.--Dereham and Swaffham Theatres were advertised to be sold by auction,
"under the will of the late Mr. David Fisher." After this date there are
no further records of the Norfolk and Suffolk Company of Comedians, so
long under the management of the Fisher family.
--Mr. Rush, "a respectable farmer," of Hevingham, was accidentally killed
by the discharge of a gun "left in the kitchen of his house by his son,
James Blomfield Rush, auctioneer and farmer, of Wymondham."
18.--M. Jullien gave the first of three concerts at St. Andrew's Hall,
Norwich.
26.--In the Arches Court, the Rev. William Henry Henslowe, perpetual
curate of Wormegay, was suspended from the ministry for three months, for
refusing on two occasions to bury the corpse of Sarah Bowden, a
parishioner who had been baptised by a minister of the Primitive
Methodist persuasion. The case was brought before the Court by letters
of request from the Bishop of Norwich.