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SEAFORD , an See also:urban See also:district and watering-See also:place in the See also:East-See also:bourne See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Sussex, See also:England, 58 m. S. by E. from See also:London by the London, See also:Brighton & See also:South See also:Coast railway. Pop. (1901) 3355• In See also:recent years there has been a considerable increase in the number of visitors. The See also:climate is bracing, and the See also:town is sheltered by high cliffs. There are See also:golf links on the neighbouring See also:downs. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Leonard is See also:Norman of various See also:dates, but received large additions in the Perpendicular See also:period. In former days the See also:river See also:Ouse entered the See also:English Channel here, and the natural See also:harbour so formed accounts for the origin of Seaford (Sefford, Safford, Seford), probably in See also:Roman times.. In the " Domesday of Cinque Ports " (which . existed in the reign of See also:Edward III., but was lost before 1728), it stood first among the members of See also:Hastings, and was doubtless of considerable importance until about the end of the 14th See also:century, when its rapid decline began owing to the See also:constant alteration of the See also:sea-coast and the decay of the harbour. In the 16th century the town was finally deserted by the Ouse, which now runs into the sea at See also:Newhaven, 2 m. westward, and no revival of its prosperity occurred until the See also:early 19th century, when it began to be frequented as a watering-place. Fishing has always been the See also:chief See also:industry.
Seaford is not mentioned in Domesday See also:Book, but evidently pertained to the lordship of the 1st See also:Earl See also:Warenne and his descendants, who were succeeded in 1347 by the earls of See also:Arundel. It was probably a See also:mesne See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in the See also:lath century, growing up under the See also:protection of the earls of Warenne, and was certainly called a borough in 1236. Bailiffs are mentioned in the 14th century, but the town was not incorporated until 1544, when notwithstanding its decayed See also:condition See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII. annexed it to Hastings by See also:charter, and incorporated it under the See also:title of See also:bailiff and commonalty, presumably as a See also:reward for assisting the See also:head See also:port to provide its proportion of See also:ships to the See also:crown. The See also:corporation was dissolved by an See also:act of 1883. The town returned two representatives to See also:parliament from 1298 to 1399, and again from 164o until 1832, when it was disfranchised. In the 13th century the earls of Warenne held a See also:market or See also:fair, or both, apparently by prescriptive right. In 1792 the fair-days were Whit-See also:Monday and the loth of See also:August, and the market-days Wednesdays and Saturdays, but no market or fair now exists.
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