£ s. d.
Annual rents 40,419 1 5¼
Expenditure 7,608 4 5½
Net income 32,810 16 11¾

Year ending at Michaelmas, 1878.
(Highest rental.)

£ s. d.
Annual rents 60,218 1 6½
Expenditure 20,653 12 3
Net income 39,564 9 3½

Year ending at Michaelmas, 1891.

£ s. d.
Annual rents 43,790 15 7¾
Expenditure 20,323 2 11½
Net income 23,467 12 8¼

Remarks.—Decrease 27¼ per cent. The tithe was paid by the landlord in 1878 and 1891, and three-fourths by the tenants in 1842.

£ s. d. £ s. d.
The amount expended by the late Earl of Leicester in buildings and repairs from 1776 to Michaelmas, 1841, was 536,992 0 0
The amount expended by the present Earl of Leicester in buildings and repairs, gates and fences, and under-draining, from Michaelmas, 1841, to Michaelmas, 1891, was 367,981 0 0
For purchase of estates 190,175 0 0
558,156 0 0
1,095,148 0 0

DECEMBER.

1.—The first lecture of a series on Ecclesiastical History was delivered in the nave of Norwich Cathedral by Archdeacon Farrar on “Ignatius and Polycarp.” (See January 5th, 1893.)

8.—Died suddenly, at Bristol, Mr. William James Metcalfe, Q.C., Recorder of Norwich, and judge of the Bristol County Court. He was a son of the Rev. W. Metcalfe, of Foulmire, Cambridgeshire, and was born in 1818. Educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he took his M.A. degree, he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1845, and became Queen’s Counsel in 1873. Mr. Metcalfe was Recorder of Ipswich from 1866 to 1874, and succeeded Mr. P. O’Malley, Q.C., in the Recordership of Norwich. In 1879 he was appointed to his County Court judgeship. He was succeeded as Recorder of Norwich by Mr. Thomas Richardson Kemp, Q.C.