Benefit of clergy, 73.
Benefit receipts at Norwich Theatre, 64, 90, 222, 235, 245, 278.
Benevolent Society, Norwich, 48.
. . . stranger, 102.
Bengalese baptised at Burnham Market, 141.
Bennett, Mr. (actor), 225.
Bennett, Mr. George (actor), 401.
Bennett, Mr. James, Norwich scientist, 443.
Bentinck, Lord George, elected for Lynn, 273, 306, 320, 464; entertained at dinner by Protectionists, 458; death, 472.
Bentinck, Lord William, resigns his seat for Lynn, 273.
Benwell, loss of the, 370.
Berney’s patent cartridges, 423.
Berry, Capt. Sir Ed., R.N., 52; death of, 303.
Betty, Master, “the Young Roscius,” 133, 147.
Bidder, George, the boy calculator, 171.
Bidwell, Elizabeth, her escape from the French, 52.
Bignold, Mr. Samuel, elected Mayor of Norwich, 323, 473; presentation to, 335; summoned before the House of Commons, 340; appeals to the House of Lords, 358; attacked by “Norwich Mercury,” 390; chairman of Waterworks Company, 483.
“Billy Boots,” 123.
Bird fancying, 130.
Birds attracted by Happisburgh light, 450.
Bishop Blaize celebrations, 188, 329, 354, 415.
Bishop of Norwich assailed by mob, 413.
Bishops of Norwich, 37, 38, 359, 362, 413, 479, 481.
Birth, of Princess Royal, 403; Prince of Wales, 412; Prince Alfred, 440; Princess Helena, 456; Princess Louise, 469; Prince Arthur, 484.
Birthday dinners, 19, 28, 30, 47, 56, 83, 147, 158, 159, 166, 172, 178, 182, 205, 245.
Birthdays, celebration of Royal, 6, 30, 41, 57, 83, 105, 127, 148, 157, 159, 172, 181, 295, 298, 331, 362, 476, 485.
Blackman, the privateer, 36.
Blanchard, Mr. (actor), 145, 161, 206.
Blasphemy, charge of, 145.
Blickling Hall, fire at, 65.
Blind persons married, 75.
. . . postman, 336.
. . . School at Norwich, 37, 131, 182, 199.
Blucher’s victory, 114.
Boat-phaeton, 375.
Body of Dean Croft discovered, 89.
Body-snatching, 232, 241, 261, 272, 273, 281, 283, 289, 300, 319.
Body-stealing, remarkable case of, 376.
Bombardment of Flushing, 76.
Bonfires prohibited, 24.
Bonaparte in effigy, 110, 115, 116.
Bonaparte’s military coach in Norwich, 162.
Bone manure, 106.
Booth, Miss (actress), 168, 293.
Booth, Mr. (actor), 183.
Borrow family, 316, 327, 374, 396; Capt. Borrow, 125, 177; George Borrow gives derivation of word “Tory,” 316; imprisoned in Spain, 374; marriage, 396; Lieut. John Thomas Borrow, 327.
Botanical garden proposed, 237.
Boundary of Norwich: Singular case, 166.
Bourbon, Mdlle. de, 41.
Bowles, H. R. (actor), 46, 80, 106, 283, 286, 291.
Bowls, 59.
Boxing exhibitions, 61, 70, 160, 170, 184.
Boy charged with murder, 416.
Braconash church restored, 67.
Braham, Mr., at Norwich, 299, 316, 428.
Bread, sale of on Sunday, 129, 149.
Bread substitutes, 2.
Bribery, 156, 201, 237, 255, 257, 258, 266, 269, 274, 275, 288, 290, 294, 302, 334, 341, 372, 373, 468.
. . . , alleged extortion arising from, 334.
. . . , indictments for, 302, 342.
Bride, curious reception of a, 281.
Bridewell at Norwich, 88, 259.
. . . , sale of, 286.
Bridges, 28, 67, 68, 72, 159, 161, 176, 196, 212, 276, 285, 386, 428, 440, 446, 449.
Brig launched at Thorpe, 22.
Briggs’ Lane (or Street) improvement, 119, 388, 390, 412, 433.
British Army in Spain, 75.
Brooke, Mr. G. V. (actor), 359, 360, 361, 383, 392, 393, 397, 407, 470.
Brooke, Rajah, of Sarawak, 466.
Brown, Hannah, murdered by Greenacre, 360.
Browne, Philip G., author of “History of Norwich,” 446.
Browne, Sir Thomas, finding of his remains, 402.
Browne, W. J. Utten, elected Sheriff, 324; declines to attend Municipal Commission, 327; candidate for Ashburton, 363.
Brunswick Constitutional Club, 282.
Brunton family, 17, 61, 90, 158, 168, 180, 193, 216, 218, 227, 247, 256, 268, 411, 419, 436, 457. Miss Louisa Brunton, married to the Earl of Craven, 61. Mr. and Miss Brunton at Norwich Theatre, 158, 180, 193. Début of Miss Fanny Brunton at Lynn Theatre, 168. Lieut. (afterwards Lieut.-Col.) Brunton, 90, 411, 457.
“Bull-fight” at Norwich circus, 327.
Bull in an upstairs room, 262.
Bull Ole B. (violinist), 352.
Bullock’s Museum, 94.
Bulwer, Brigadier-General, 33.
Bulwer, Mr. W. E. L., and the Heydon estate, 181, 183.
Burgh Castle, sale of, 458.
Burglar shot at Lynn, 203.
Burglaries, 14, 92, 104, 198, 203.
Burial in a suit of clothes, 192; in regimentals, 195; at cross-ways, 199; refused by a clergyman, 442.
Burnt alive at Lynn, 194.
Bustard (little) killed, 379.
Butler, Mr. (actor), 340.
Butler, Mrs. See Kemble, Miss Fanny.
Byrne, Miss (actress), 159.
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Cadet corps at Norwich, 27.
Caistor Camp, discovery of skeletons at, 191; of pottery, 208.
Cambridge, Duke of, 14, 20, 471, 486.
Camping (or Camp-ball), 50, 127, 159, 208, 210, 213, 308.
Canal, North Walsham and Dilham, 93, 239, 244, 256, 258.
Canals proposed between Bungay and Diss, 154; Dereham and Norwich, 171.
Canary show, 459.
Canning, Sir Stratford, appointed Ambassador at Constantinople, 415.
Cannon, bursting of, 23.
. . . , mounted on waggons, 38, 62.
Cannonading heard at Horsford, 8.
Capital punishment, efforts to abolish, 168, 296, 454.
Carlile, Richard, at Norwich, 364.
Carriages for conveyance of troops, 23, 42, 44.
Carrow bridge, 67, 68, 155, 386.
Carter, the “Lion King,” 407, 432.
Castle Corporation, 83, 121, 122, 133, 179, 241.
Castle Hill, Norwich, enclosed, 67.
Castlereagh, Lord, 132, 154; assailed by Norwich mob, 178.
Castle Rising, archæological discoveries at, 226.
. . . Corporation, 327.
. . . prison: singular action, 108.
Cathcart, Lord, at Norwich, 60, 97.
Cathedral, 4, 7, 46, 211, 255, 420; restoration of, 46, 309; repair of tower criticised, 420.
. . . doors, ceremony of knocking at, 332, 333.
. . . rushes strewn in, 296, 332.
Cattle-driving on Sunday, 36.
Cattle, foreign, on Norwich Hill, 458.
. . . Market at Norwich, 76, 81.
. . . , shooting of, 389.
Caul advertised, 13.
Cavalry pioneers, 34.
Celebrations, 6, 30, 41, 57, 83, 87, 110, 115, 116, 127, 191, 194, 197, 264.
Céleste, Madame, 323, 430, 439, 464.
Census returns, 5, 7, 91, 195, 306, 413.
Centenarians. See Died.
Ceremonial objected to by a Sheriff, 86.
Chairing of members of Parliament, 256, 319.
Chalmers, Mr. (actor), 85.
Chamber of Commerce, 464.
Chancel screen at Yarmouth, 144.
Chancellors of the Diocese, 72, 220, 296, 442.
Changes of surnames, 44, 91, 115, 119, 147, 187, 189, 190, 200, 233, 364, 387, 421, 422, 435, 464.
Chantrey, the sculptor, 413.
Chapel Field, Norwich, circus and menagerie in, 442.
Chapels, Nonconformist, 91, 98, 101, 169, 200, 225, 228, 256, 345, 389.
Chapman, Rev. C, vicar of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, 443.
Charities litigation, 351, 356, 358, 382.
Charlotte, Princess, marriage of, 137; encourages Norwich manufactures, 140; death, 152, 154.
Chartist movement, 378, 380, 382, 398, 403, 408, 409, 412, 413, 427, 443, 464.
Chatham, Earl of, 132.
Chief Constable of the county, 390.
Chimney sweeps, 140.
Ching Lan Lauro, 275.
Chloroform first used at Norwich, 467.