21.--Died at East Dereham, Mr. George Alfred Carthew, F.S.A., M.A., aged
75. Mr. Carthew, who was known throughout the kingdom as an able
archaeologist, contributed many valuable papers to the journals of
learned societies. He was the author of "A History of the Hundred of
Launditch," and of a similar work, passing through the press at the time
of his death, on the topography, archaeology, genealogy, and biography of
East and West Bradenham, Necton, and Holme Hale. He had vast stores of
curious information, acquired in the course of a life-long study of
matters illustrating the history of the county in ancient times. He was
a descendant of the old Cornish family of Carthew, a member of which,
Thomas Carthew, of Canalidgy, married, in the year 1685, Mary Colby, of
Banham. Mr. Carthew helped to found the Norfolk and Norwich
Archaeological Society, and to establish its position among the learned
societies of the kingdom.
24.--An inquiry, directed by the Charity Commissioners for England and
Wales, under the Endowed Schools Act, 1869, was opened at the Guildhall,
Norwich, by Mr. C. H. Stanton, into the matter of the endowments commonly
known as the Grammar School of the foundation of King Edward VI., the
Commercial School of the same foundation, the Boys' Hospital, the Girls'
Hospital, and Norman's Charity. Many prominent citizens made statements
before the Commissioner, who closed his inquiry on the 25th. (_See_
August 11th, 1883.)
26.--A remarkable case of somnambulism occurred on this date. A girl of
seventeen, employed as general servant by a shopkeeper at Felthorpe,
after retiring to rest at nine o'clock, got out of bed, and, having put
on a dress and a pair of boots, climbed out of the bed-room window, and,
without waking, reached the ground by groping along the roof of a lean-to
shed. She then walked to Cawston, a distance of five miles, and was
found about four o'clock in the morning sitting fast asleep on the
doorstep of her father's house. She was stiff, cold, and speechless, and
on being restored to warmth and consciousness, stated that she had no
recollection whatever of having left her bed.
28.--A severe gale, accompanied by wrecks and loss of life, occurred on
the Norfolk coast.
--At the Norwich Assizes, before Mr. Justice Lindley, James Charles
Edwards, 37, solicitor's clerk, pleaded guilty to forging certain
documents. The prisoner read a written statement, in which he said, "A
love for pictures was my ruin, a craving desire and mania to possess
myself of something better than my neighbours gradually developed, until
at last it became a madness with me." He was sentenced to ten years'
penal servitude.