2.--Mr. Michael Beverley, of Forncett St. Mary, a popular sportsman in
South Norfolk, was killed whilst hunting with Mr. Fellowes' hounds at
Moulton. He was in his 60th year.
4.--Many hundred persons assembled at Bacton Wood Mill, North Walsham, to
witness the baptism by immersion in the mill stream of several men and
women "who had embraced the faith of Mormonites, or Latter-day Saints."
13.--A public meeting was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the
presidency of the Mayor, at which resolutions were adopted in favour of a
national rate, and condemnatory of the laws of settlement and removal,
"which drove the poor to reside in large towns and unjustly limited their
field of labour." Another resolution condemned the gross inequality in
the assessments of the various parishes in England and Wales to the
relief of the poor. A petition was ordered to be presented to Parliament
in accordance with the terms of the resolutions.
17.--A severe outbreak of cholera was recorded at Rudham, where
twenty-four deaths had occurred up to this date. "Extreme poverty and
dirt had much to do with this awful visitation."
27.--The agitation for the repeal of the Malt Tax was re-opened at a
meeting of the farmers of West Norfolk, held at the Market Hall, Lynn.
It was decided to petition Parliament in favour of the repeal. Many
meetings were held with the same object in other parts of the county.
28.--Died at Leyton, aged 54, Mr. Charles Fox, engraver. He was a son of
Robert Fox, a steward on the Costessey estate, received lessons in
drawing from Charles Hodgson, at Norwich, and was apprenticed to Mr.
Edwards, engraver, of Bungay. "His exquisite line engravings are well
known by those who value the highest specimens of skill in that
department and by the lovers of fine English prints."