A Machine to Yarmouth twice every day, from the Black horse, Tombland, at eight o’clock in the morning and four in the afternoon, in the summer, and nine o’clock in the morning and three in the afternoon in winter, Saturday mornings excepted; and in the worst part of the winter it sometimes runs only once each day.
Two London waggons leave Norwich every Tuesday and Friday evening, and return to Norwich every Wednesday and Saturday sen’-night following. By these waggons through Cambridge, there is a regular conveyance to Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield, York, and all the manufacturing towns in Yorkshire:—here are also York, Manchester, Lynn, Bury waggons, &c.—also a Barge to Yarmouth every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
The Diocese of Norwich consists of a Bishop, Chancellor, Archdeacon, Commissaries, and other officers of the Ecclesiastical Court, a Dean, Prebendaries, Minor-Canons, and other officers of the cathedral. The Bishop’s office is in the upper close—the Consistory court is held in the cathedral, about once in three weeks—the Dean and Chapter’s office is in the cloyster—Archdeacon’s office at Mr. Steward’s, Bank street.
List of the Bishops and Deans of Norwich,
during the last century.
BISHOPS.
1691 John Moore, translated to Ely, the forty-ninth Bishop.
1707 Charles Trimmel, to Sarum.
1721 Thomas Green, to Ely.
1723 John Lang.