26.—A meeting was held at the Angel Inn, Norwich, at which an association was formed for the protection of agriculture. It was known as the East Norfolk Agricultural Society, and Mr. Jehosaphat Postle was elected president.
—A corn market was re-established at Wells-next-the-Sea.
28.—The first annual meeting of subscribers to the Norfolk and Norwich Museum was held at the Guildhall, under the presidency of Sir James E. Smith. Rules for the management of the institution were adopted.
30.—St. Andrew’s Day was celebrated by the Scots Greys at the Cavalry Barracks, Norwich. A soldier dressed as St. Andrew was escorted from the city boundary to the barracks by a party of forty troopers in Highland dress, who called at the house of the Mayor, in Pottergate Street, and danced a reel. The festival was afterwards kept in a convivial manner at the barracks.
DECEMBER.
9.—Mr. De Hague’s portrait, painted by Sir William Beechey, was hung in St. Andrew’s Hall, Norwich.
12.—Died, aged 83, Mr. Burks, one of the proprietors of the “Norwich Mercury.”
16.—Messrs. T. H. and W. Day, of the Norwich and Swaffham Bank, announced that they were compelled to suspend their payments. On the 17th it was made known that a docket had been struck preparatory to a commission of bankruptcy being issued against the firm.—Messrs. Fincham’s Bank at Diss stopped payment at about the same date owing to the sudden death of Mr. Benjamin Fincham on November 19th, but was re-opened on January 9th, 1826.
20.—The Rev. Robert Forby, rector of Fincham, was found drowned in his bath. It was supposed that he was seized with sudden faintness while bathing.
27.—Died at Tittleshall parsonage, the Rev. Dixon Hoste, aged 76, for many years an acting magistrate in the Hundred of Launditch.