FRAMLINGHAM, (Suffolk) 74 cm. 86 mm. from London, is a large old T. with a castle, supposed to have been built by some of
the first Ks. of the East-Angles; the walls, yet standing, are 44 foot high, 8 thick, with 13 towers 14 foot above them, 2
of which are watch-towers. To this castle the Pfs. afterwards Q. Mary I. retired, when the lady Jane Grey was her
competitor for the crown. After it had been in sundry families, the last of which were the Veres Es. of Oxford, and the
Howards Ds. of Norfolk, it was sold, together with the Lp. to Sir Rob. Hitcham, who gave them to Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge.
The T. stands pleasantly, though but indifferently built, upon a clay hill, in a fruitful soil and a healthy air, near the
source of the r. Ore, by some called Winckel, which runs through it to Orford. It has a spacious place for the Mt. on S.
and a large stately Ch. built all of black flint, with a steeple 100 foot high. Here are 2 good almshos. one founded by
Sir Rob. Hitcham, in 1654, who also founded a fr. sc. here; the other, about 1704, by the trustees of Mr. Mills, a
baptist-minister. Its Fairs are Whit-Mon. Tu. and Wed. and Sept. 29.