22.—The remaining troop of the 9th Royal Lancers marched from Norwich Barracks, under the command of Capt. Whalley. Two troops and the headquarters of the 8th Royal Irish Hussars, commanded by Col. the Hon. G. B. Molyneaux, took over the Barracks on June 5th.
25.—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by Major Loftus, commenced permanent duty at Cromer. The regiment consisted of three troops, namely, the Rainham Troop (Capt. H. B. Caldwell); the Hingham Troop (Capt. Ferdinand Ives); and the Holt Troop (Capt. John Mott). “The uniform and appointments assimilate closely in cut and other details with those of her Majesty’s regiments of Dragoon Guards.”
JUNE.
1.—Died at Thetford, aged 63, Mr. Thomas Withers Gill, an alderman of the borough, who had twice served the office of Mayor.
—The publication commenced in bi-monthly shilling parts of “The Eastern Arboretum: a new Botanical Work on the Trees of Norfolk,” by James Grigor; illustrated by T. Ninham. London: Longman and Co.; Norwich: John Stacy, Old Haymarket.
4.—A public meeting, presided over by the Dean, was held in Norwich, “to receive a report on the city National Schools, established in the year 1708, and to consider the best means of advancing the benevolent objects of these most ancient charitable institutions.” Resolutions were passed pledging the meeting to support the schools, “which were the first and for a long time the sole means of educating
the children of the poor, and also the cause of similar institutions in later years.”
5.—The tender of the Rev. Mr. Kent, of East Winch, for the purchase of the patronage of St. Mary’s Church, Bury St. Edmund’s, at 3,000 guineas, was opened and accepted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
9.—Mr. W. M. Warcup, surgeon, of East Dereham, was presented with a piece of plate by the inhabitants of Swanton Morley, “in testimony of their respect for his skilful and successful treatment of the poor of that parish during fourteen months when typhus fever of a very malignant character extended itself into the family of almost every poor person in the village.”
—The question of the practicability of paving Guildhall Hill, Norwich, with wood, “in order to prevent the noise and interruption from carriages passing up and down the hill during the holding of Quarter Sessions, Assizes, and magistrates’ sittings,” was introduced by the Mayor (Capt. Money) and referred to a Committee of the Paving Commissioners, who, on October 13th, reported that “a wood pavement was not suitable for declivities.” A macadamised road was thereupon ordered to be made.