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7.—William Brownsell, many years in the service of Mr. William Mason, of Necton, was accidentally shot in his master’s plantation by a spring gun. He lay in dreadful agony all night and died soon after being found next morning.

15.—A private watch instituted and maintained by the inhabitants of St. Stephen’s, Norwich, commenced its duties.

—A prize fight took place near Mattishall between Mike Fenn and John Short, of Norwich. “After 14 rounds Fenn was so dreadfully beaten that he was carried off the ground in a state of insensibility.” Two thousand persons were present.

20.*—“Died at East Dereham last week a poor woman of the name of Rumble, aged 103 years. She retained her faculties till within a month of her decease.”