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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HADLEIGH , a See also:

market See also:town in the See also:Sudbury See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Suffolk, See also:England; 70 M. N.E. from See also:London, the See also:terminus of a See also:branch of the See also:Great Eastern railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (19o1), 3245. It lies pleasantly in a well-wooded See also:country on the small See also:river Brett, a tributary of the See also:Stour. The See also:church of St See also:Mary is of See also:good Perpendicular See also:work, with See also:Early See also:English See also:tower and Decorated See also:spire. The Rectory Tower, a turreted See also:gate-See also:house of See also:brick, See also:dates from c. 1495. The gild-See also:hall is a Tudor See also:building, and there are other examples of this See also:period. There are a town-hall and See also:corn See also:exchange, and an See also:industry in the manufacture of See also:matting and in malting. Hadleigh was one of the towns in which the woollen industry was started by Flemings, and survived until the 18th See also:century. Among the rectors of Hadleigh several notable names appear, such as See also:Rowland See also:Taylor, the See also:martyr, who was burned at the stake outside the town in 1555, and See also:Hugh See also:James See also:Rose, during whose tenancy of the rectory an initiatory See also:meeting of the leaders of the See also:Oxford See also:Movement took See also:place here in 1833. Hadleigh, called by the See also:Saxons Heapde-leag, appears in Domesday See also:Book as Hetlega.

About 885 IEthelflmd, See also:

lady of the Mercians, with the consent of ./See also:Ethelred her See also:husband, gave HadIeigh to See also:Christ Church, See also:Canterbury. The See also:dean and See also:chapter of Canterbury have held See also:possession of it ever since the See also:Dissolution. In the 17th century Hadleigh was famous for the manufacture of See also:cloth, and in 1618 was sufficiently important to receive See also:incorporation. It was constituted a See also:free See also:borough under the See also:title of the See also:mayor, aldermen and burgesses of Hadleigh. In 1635, in a See also:list of the corporate towns of Suffolk to be assessed for See also:ship See also:money, Hadleigh is named as third in importance. In 1636, owing to a serious visitation of the See also:plague, zoo families were thrown out of work, and in 1687 so much had its importance declined that it was deprived of its See also:charter. An unsuccessful See also:attempt to recover it was made in 1701. There is See also:evidence of the existence of a market here as early as the 13th century. James I., in his charter of incorporation, granted fairs on See also:Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun See also:week, and confirmed an See also:ancient See also:fair at Michaelmas and a market on Monday.

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