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NORFOLK ANNALS
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF REMARKABLE EVENTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
BY CHARLES MACKIE
PREFACE
In the terms of the publishers' announcement the two volumes of "Norfolk Annals" were to have contained 800 pages; the work has really exceeded that estimate by 255 pages.
CORRIGENDA.
ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIBERS.
George Cubitt, Tombland, Norwich.
H. R. Ladell, Aylsham Road, North Walsham.
Arnold H. Miller, The Guildhall, Norwich.
H. Newhouse, Bella Vista, Thorpe Road, Norwich.
Colonel H. T. S. Patteson, Beeston St. Andrew Hall.
Simms Reeve, 29, Thorpe Road, Norwich.
The Earl of Rosebery, K.G., K.T., 38, Berkley Square, London, W.
T. O. Springfield, The Rookery, Swainsthorpe.
F. Oddin Taylor, St. Ethelbert, Norwich.
Arthur Wolton, 78, Borough High Street, London, S.E.
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY.
--The Norwich Town Council resolved to petition the House of Commons for the total repeal of the Window-tax.
--An exhibition of hawking was given on Hellesdon Brakes, near Norwich, by Mr. Barr, the celebrated Scottish falconer. Many hundreds of persons were present. Mr. Barr used four young hawks of the peregrine species. They were flown at pigeons which were let loose, and in two hours two dozen were brought to the ground. "The first two or three were so frightened, that when pursued by the hawk they took refuge among the people, and one of them alighted on the back of a horse, and was taken by hand." Mr. Barr gave a second exhibition on March 10th, on Mr. George Gowing's land at Trowse.
MARCH.
APRIL.
--Samuel Woodhouse, of Plumstead, and William Pyle, of Holt, were buried alive in a well 115 feet deep, at Docking, by the falling in of 36 feet of soil. "Some of the inhabitants proposed to fill up the well and let them remain in it, stating that the same thing had been done at Tittleshall, where an inquest was held at the mouth of the well and the body or bodies remain there to this day." Efforts were made, however, to recover the bodies. That of Pyle was found on May 14th, and of Woodhouse on the 15th. "Though the bodies had been buried exactly three weeks, on their being brought to the surface and moved about blood flowed freely from both of them."
MAY.
JUNE.
JULY.
AUGUST.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
--Macarte's Circus Company performed in a temporary building erected on the Castle Meadow, Norwich.
JANUARY.
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JUNE.
JULY.
--Mr. C. E. Rumbold and Sir E. Lacon, "Moderate Conservatives," and Mr. W. T. M'Cullagh and Sir C. Napier, Whig-Radicals, were nominated Parliamentary candidates for Yarmouth. The polling took place on the 8th: Lacon, 611; Rumbold; 547; M'Cullagh, 521; Napier, 486.
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SEPTEMBER.
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