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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 518 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOUTHWELD , a municipal See also:

borough and watering-See also:place in the See also:Lowestoft See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Suffolk, See also:England, 12 M. S. by W. of Lowestoft, the See also:terminus of the Southwold railway,which connects with the See also:Great Eastern at Halesworth. Pop. (1901), 2800. The See also:church of St See also:Edmund's is a Perpendicular See also:flint structure. In 1900 a See also:pier 270 yds. See also:long was constructed, and serves as a calling-place for See also:pleasure steamers. A See also:fine See also:common See also:south of the See also:town is used for See also:golf, See also:lawn-See also:tennis, See also:cricket, and other See also:sports. The town is governed by a See also:mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. See also:Area, 612 acres. Southwold (Sudwold, Suwold, Suthwaud) owes its origin and prosperity to its See also:herring See also:fisheries, which were considerable in 1086, while the importance of its See also:harbour increased with the decay of See also:Dunwich. In 1461 the men of the town, tenants of the See also:manor which had been granted by the monks of See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds to See also:Gilbert, See also:earl of See also:Clare, and had passed to the See also:Crown with the See also:honour of Clare, claimed exemption from See also:toll, pontage and similar dues as their prescriptive right. An See also:act of 1489 incorporated the bailiffs and commonalty of the town and exempted them from harbour dues.

These liberties were confirmed in 1505 by See also:

Henry VII., who also granted the See also:corporation the town and manor to hold at See also:fee-See also:farm with certain rights of See also:jurisdiction. Confirmatory chapters were granted by Henry VIII., See also:Edward VI., See also:Elizabeth, See also:James I. and See also:Charles II., and the town was governed by a royal See also:charter of 1689 until the Municipal Reform Act of 1835. The weekly See also:market, now the See also:property of the corporation, was granted to the See also:abbot of St Edmunds as See also:lord of the manor in 1227 together with' a yearly See also:fair on the See also:vigil of the feast of St See also:Philip and St James. A fair is still held on Trinity See also:Monday. In 1672 Southwold See also:Bay, usually abbreviated as Solebay, was the See also:scene of a See also:battle between the See also:English See also:fleet See also:tinder the See also:duke of See also:York and the Dutch under Ruyter, the See also:French fleet holding aloof. The English suffered much, but the Dutch withdrew. See " See also:Victoria See also:County See also:History " : Suffolk ; T. See also:Gardner, An See also:Historical See also:account of Dunwich, Blithburgh and Southwold (ed. 1754).

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