FRAMLINGHAM  , a

market town in the Eye parliamentary division of Suffolk, 9r m . N.E. from London by a branch of the Great Eastern railway . Pop . (1901) 2526 . 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, among which the most noticeable are those of Thomas Howard, 3rd duke of Norfolk, 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, 13 towers about 58 ft. high, a gateway and some outworks . About half a mile from the town is the Albert Memorial Middle Class College, opened in 1865, and capable of accommodating 300 boys . A bronze statue of the Prince Consort by Joseph Durham adorns the front terrace . 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 =f lti . coin was termed a franc a pied . As a coin it disappeared after the reign of Charles VI., but the name continued to be used as an equivalent for the livre tournois, which was worth twenty sols .

French writers would speak without distinction of so many livres or so many francs, so long as the sum mentioned was an even sum; otherwise livre was the correct term, thus "trois livres" or " trois francs," but " trois livres cinq sols." In 1795 the livre was legally converted into the franc, at the rate of 81 livres to 8o francs, the silver franc being made to weigh exactly five grammes . The franc is now the unit of the monetary system and also the money of account in France, as well as in Belgium and Switzerland . In Italy the equivalent is the lira, and in Greece the drachma . The franc is divided into loo centimes, the lira into roo centesimi and the drachma into 100 lepta . Gold is now the standard, the coins in common use being ten and twenty franc pieces . The twenty franc gold piece weighs 6.4516 grammes, -900 fine . The silver coins are five, two, one, and half franc pieces . The five franc silver piece weighs 25 grammes, -900 fine, while the franc piece weighs 5 grammes, •835 fine . See also MONEY .