magistrates referred him to the Ecclesiastical Court, but he said he would effect the sale and take the risk. On the 7th, at or near the Prussia Gardens, he sold his wife for a guinea, and received a sovereign on account. On the 10th Wilkinson was bound over to keep the peace for assaulting his wife. In the course of the hearing the following written agreement was produced:—
“This is to satfy that I Samyoul Wilkerson sold my wife to Mr. Gorge Springle for the sum of one pound one before witness.
Samyoul X Wilkerson
Maryann Wilkerson X her mark
Gorge Springle X his mark
Frederick Cornish, witness.”
7.—Died, Mr. George Cooke Tucker, landlord of the New Inn, Cromer. “The present flourishing establishment was built and raised by him. Possessed of a peculiar courteousness of manner, and endowed with great kindness of disposition, he was alike esteemed by the resident gentry and the general inhabitants of the place and neighbourhood. He had reached the patriarchal age of ninety years.”
11.—Died, aged 62, Mr. William Norman, Windsor Place, New Lakenham, “many years hair dresser to his late Majesty George III.”
18.—At Norwich Theatre was produced, for the first time, a new melodrama, in three acts, entitled, “The Student of Jena,” by Mr. Wm. Cooper, B.A., barrister, of Norwich. “The play is founded on the romance of the ‘Diamond Watch,’ a piece of diablerie, emanating from the German school.”
26.—Thurlow, the pedestrian, commenced a walk of 2,000 miles in one thousand hours, at Richmond Hill Gardens, Norwich. (No further record.) Robert Skipper, “the celebrated pedestrian, of Norfolk and Norwich, having been absent on the Continent and in different counties, where he has won several matches, and is now in his 55th year,” began a walk on June 21st, of 50 miles per day for twenty successive days, at the Green Hill Gardens, St. Augustine’s Gates, Norwich. He completed the task on Sunday, July 10th, “and did not appear to be in the least distressed.”
28.—Mr. and Mrs. Wood commenced, at Norwich Theatre, a five nights’ engagement, prior to their final retirement from the stage. The operas produced included “Fra Diavolo,” “Midas,” “La Somnambula,” and “Norma.”
—The Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry assembled at Swaffham for eight days’ permanent duty, under the command of Major Loftus.
30.—Cricket was revived in Norwich by a match played on this date, between the Norwich Club and the officers and privates of the 13th Light Dragoons. “Considerable fluctuation has for the last few years in Norwich marked the practice of this celebrated manly game, and about two years since nothing appeared more probable than its extinction.”