—*(Advt.) “Miss Phillis Glover, being obliged by the early opening of the Haymarket Theatre, where she is engaged, to leave the Norwich Company before the close of the season, begs permission to take this, her only opportunity, of returning thanks to the inhabitants of Norwich for the kind indulgence afforded to her professional exertions, and of bidding them most respectfully farewell.” (Miss Glover, whose place in the Norwich Company was filled by
the engagement of Miss Goward, was married on November 19th, 1827, at the church of St Clement Danes, London, to Mr. J. C. Evans, solicitor, of Liverpool.)
29.—Mr. Dewing’s hounds met at West Bradenham, where a fine buck was turned off, and ran through Bradenham and Saham, skirted Ashill to Holme Hale, crossed Necton Common, ran through Necton by Fransham to Dunham, Palgrave, and Sporle, and thence to Castleacre, where he was taken after a severe run of 21 miles over the stiffest country in Norfolk.
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2.—Shore’s menagerie was exhibited on the Castle Ditches, Norwich.
—*“Died at Yarmouth, Mrs. Elizabeth Campling, in her 101st year.”
3.—Died at North Walsham, Mary Cook, aged 101.
5.—One hundred “bankers” from Bedfordshire arrived at North Walsham and commenced digging the North Walsham and Dilham Canal. “The first spade of earth was taken out by Mr. William Youard, the band striking up ‘God save the King.’”
—A prize fight took place between Camplin and Murrell, of Norwich, on a meadow near Thorpe, for £10 aside. Murrell was the winner.
7.—The Archdeacon of Norwich convened a meeting of clergy at the Maid’s Head Inn, Norwich, at which a petition to the House of Commons was adopted stating that the signatories were not in agreement with their brethren who had petitioned Parliament in opposition to Roman Catholic claims. Seventy signatures were appended. The other petition against the Bill for conceding the claims of the Roman Catholics was signed by the Bishop of Norwich and 200 clergy. A similar petition was adopted by the Corporation on May 3rd by thirty-three votes against six.—The intelligence that the Emancipation Bill had been rejected by the House of Lords was received in Norwich on May 19th with the ringing of the bells of St. Peter Mancroft and of the other churches in the city.