FRAMLINGHAM, a market town in the Eye parliamentary division of East Suffolk, 91 m. N.E. from London on a branch of the L.N.E.R. from Wickham market. Pop. of civil parish (1931) 2,101. The church of St. Michael is a fine Perpendicular and Decorated building of black flint, surmounted by a tower 96 ft. high. In the interior there are a number of interesting monuments, including those of Thomas Howard, 3rd duke of Norfolk (d. , and of Henry Howard, the famous earl of Surrey, who was beheaded by Henry VIII. The castle forms a picturesque ruin, consisting of the outer walls 44 ft. high and 8 ft. thick, with 13 towers about 58 f t. high, a gateway and some outworks. Framling ham college for boys was founded in 1864 as a memorial to Albert, the prince consort. Framlingham (Frendlingham, Framalingaham) in early Saxon times was probably the site of a fortified earthwork to which St. Edmund the Martyr is said to have fled from the Danes in 87o. The Danes captured the stronghold after the escape of the king, but it was won back in 921, and remained in the hands of the crown, passing to William I. at the Conquest. Henry I. in 1100 granted it to Roger Bigod, who in all probability raised the first masonry castle. Hugh, son of Roger, created earl of Norfolk in 1141, succeeded his father, and the manor and castle remained in the Bigod family until 1306, when in default of heirs it reverted to the crown, and was granted by Edward II. to his half-brother Thomas de Brotherton, created earl of Nor folk in 1312. On an account roll of the castle of 1324 there is an entry of "rent received from the borough," and of a fair and market, and in all probability burghal rights had existed at a much earlier date. Town and castle followed the vicissitudes of the dukedom of Norfolk, passing to the crown in 1405, and being alternately restored and forfeited by Henry V., Richard III., Henry VII., Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth and James I., and finally sold in 1635 to Sir Robert Hitcham, who left it in 1636 to the master and fellows of Pembroke hall, Cambridge.