9.—Sir William Foster, Bart., was elected Mayor, and Mr. John Betts appointed Sheriff of Norwich.
24.—Died at his residence, St. Catherine’s Cottage, St. John de Sepulchre, Norwich, aged 73, Mr. Jonathan Matchett, senior proprietor of the Norfolk Chronicle. He had been connected with the journal for 51 years, and became its head on the decease of his father-in-law, Mr. Stevenson, in 1821.
27.—Died at his house at Costessey, aged 69, Mr. Richard Mackenzie Bacon, principal proprietor and editor of the “Norwich Mercury.” Mr. Bacon was the editor also of “The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review.”
28.—Mr. Tom Cross, the celebrated “gentleman whip,” driver of the Lynn and London coach, delivered at the Assembly Rooms, Lynn, a lecture on Shakespeare.
DECEMBER.
3.—Died at Swaffham Vicarage, aged 92, the Rev. William Yonge, vicar of the parish and Chancellor of the Diocese.
5.—Mr. Edward Stracey, of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, the respondent in a suit respecting the tenancy of a pew in the parish church, was taken into custody and lodged in the City Gaol by a process of the Norwich Ecclesiastical Court, because of his refusal to pay the costs imposed by the Court.
14.*—“The winter has set in most severely, with an intense ground frost and the wind in the east. The navigation of the river between Norwich and Yarmouth and from that port to Beccles, Bungay, and Aylsham, has been stopped by ice, but not a particle of snow has fallen.”