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Title: Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland ... connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic;
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955
Subjects: Cities and towns Cities and towns Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: Boston, Mass.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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—a strangers home, or a habitation ofstrangers; and the other from the name of the stream Fromas. The name antedates theDomesday Book of William the Conqueror when it is written Framincham. It becamea family name in 1330 as there is record of John de Framlingham, a Rector of Kelsale,and in 1540 Henry VIII conferred a grant of land to Francis Framlingham, who held thesame from Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, as Lord of the Manor of Framlinghamad Castrum. In this history of Greens the Castle is called a pile of unknown antiquity. An earlydescription by Dr. Henry Sampson, the Rector of Framlingham in 1650-1660 is this:Framlingham Castle is a very ancient structure, and said to have been built in the timeof the Saxons. It was one of the principal seats of St. Edmund the King and Martyr.When he fled from Dunwich, being pursued by the pagan Danes, he took refuge in thisCastle but being hard besieged, and having no hope of rescue, he fled from thence, and FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS 75
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From a print dated 1813, owned by Allan Forbes Formerly in the collection of J. H. Seers, Essex, England FRAMLINGHAM CASTLE, SUFFOLK, ENGLANDFramingham, Massachusetts, is named for Framlingham, England. being overtaken by his enemies, was beheaded at Hoxon, from where long after his corpsewas removed and reinterred at Bury, called since Bury St. Edmunds. Dr. Henry Sampson gives the interesting description of Framlingham Castle. Thiscastle was given by King Edward I to his second son, Thomas of Brotheron, Earl ofNorfolk and Marshall of England, who repaired it, as appeareth by his arms in diverseplaces thereof. But the chief interest in Framhngham Castle is in its association with Mary, whobecame Queen of England upon the death of her younger brother, Edward VI, in 1553.When he died Mary was at Hunsdon in the north of England, and the message came toher that her right to succeed was disputed and that she was destined for imprisonmentin the Tower of London. She turned as a fugitive towa

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