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SOUTHWICH, a hamlet of England, adjoining to the 
city of Gloucester. 
SOUTHWICH, a village and parish of England, in 
Southatnptonshire ; 5 miles north of Portsmouth. It com¬ 
mands an extensive view of the Isle of Wight, and the adja¬ 
cent scenery. Population 714. 
SOUTHWICH, a township of England, in Durham; 
2 miles north-west of Sunderland. Population 641. 
SOUTHWICH, a parish of England, in Northampton¬ 
shire ; 3 miles north-north-west of Oundle. 
SOUTHWICH, a parish of England, in Sussex, near 
the sea-shore ; 2 miles east of New Shoreham. 
SOUTHWICK, a small river of Scotland, in the stewartry 
of Kirkcudbright, which falls into the Solway frith two 
miles from the estuary of the river Err. It is navigable for 
vessels of small burden, two miles from its mouth. 
SOUTHWICK, a post township of the United States, in 
Hampden county, Massachusetts; 92 miles west-south-west 
of Boston. 
SOUTBWOLD, a market town of England, in the 
county of Suffolk, pleasantly situated on an eminence over¬ 
hanging the German Ocean, and nearly surrounded on every 
side by the river Blyth, which here discharges itself into the 
sea. It contains many good houses, but no building worthy 
of particular notice, except the church and the guildhall. 
The church is a very fine building, 143 feet in length, and 
56 wide. It has two aisles, w'hich are separated from the 
nave by seven arches and six pillars, of elegant workmanship. 
The tower steeple, about 100 feet in height, is a fine piece of 
architecture, ornamented with freestone and intermixed Hints. 
The interior of the church still indicates its having been at 
one time more highly ornamented than even the outside. A 
chapel was first built here in the reign of king John. It was 
destroyed by fire about 220 years afterwards; and the pre¬ 
sent edifice, dedicated to St. Edmund, is supposed to have 
been begun soon after, and the exterior seems to have been 
finished about 1460. In 1751, it was made parochial, and 
endowed with 400/. by the governors of Queen Anne’s 
bounty. Southwold was incorporated in 1489 by Henry 
VII., and is governed by two bailiffs, a recorder, and 12 
aldermen. It is a member of the port of Yarmouth, and 
its creek extends to Dunwick and Walderswick. It has a 
considerable trade in the herring and sprat fishery, and also 
in salt and old beer. The trade of Southwold was greatly 
encouraged by Henry VII. and Henry VIII. ; and in their 
reigns it exceeded all the neighbouring towns in shipping 
and commerce. An act of Parliament having been ob¬ 
tained for repairing the harbour, a pier was erected in 1749, 
and another in 1752. Of late years the town has derived 
some benefit from the resort of visitors for the sea bathing. 
It has been observed, that at this town in particular, as at all 
the places on this coast, the swallows first land on their 
arrival in England, and here also take their departure to 
warmer climates. Southwold bay, or Sole bay, is noted in 
history as the scene of a sanguinary naval engagement, which 
took place in 1672, between the combined fleet of England 
and France on the one side, and that of the Dutch on the 
other; the former consisting of 101 men of war, and the 
latter of 91. The issue of the day was rather uncertain : the 
English lost four ships, and the Dutch three. In 1666 
also, a famous sea fight took place here, between the 
English fleet of 114 men-of-war and frigates, and the 
Dutch fleet of 103 men-of-war, when the latter were de¬ 
feated, with the loss of 70 ships. In 1811, Southwold 
contained 1369 inhabitants. Market on Thursday, well 
attended; and two annual fairs ; 20 miles south of Yar¬ 
mouth, and 104 north-east of London. Lat. 52. 20. N. 
long. 1. 39. E. 
SOUTH WOOD, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 4J 
miles south-by-west of Acle. 
SOUTHWORTH, a township of England, in Lanca¬ 
shire; 3 miles east-south-east of Newton, in Makerfield. 
Population 1016. 
SOUTRA HILL, the westernmost hill of the Lammer- 
muir ridge, in Scotland, elevated 1000 feet above the level 
of the sea. On it are the ruins of an hospital, founded in 1164 
by Malcolm IV. of Scotland. 
SO'UVENANCE, s. [Fr.] Remembrance; memory. 
A Trench word, vow disused. 
If thou wilt renounce thy miscreance. 
Life will I grant thee for thy valiance, 
And all thy wrongs will wipe out of my souvenance. 
Spenser. 
Gave wond’rous great countenance to the knight. 
That of his way he had no souvenance , 
Nor care of vow’d revenge. Spenser. 
SOUVERABO, a small sea-port on the Grain coast of 
Africa. 
SOUVIGNY, a town near the central part of France, in 
the department of the Allier, on the river Quesnes. It con¬ 
tains 2700 inhabitants, and has extensive glass manufactures; 
6 miles west of Moulins. 
SOUVIGNY, a town in the interior of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Allier. It has 2700 inhabitants, and large glass¬ 
houses ; 9 miles south-west of Moulins. 
SOUZA (Louis de), a Portuguese writer, born at San- 
tarem, was son of a man of rank, governor of the castle of 
St. George de la Mina. He was educated to the profession of 
arms, and served first in the order of Malta, when he was 
taken prisoner by the Turks. After recovering his liberty, he 
served with the troops in America and the East Indies. After 
this he married, but the loss of a child and other afflicting 
circumstances impressed both him and his wife with a spirit 
of devotion, and they took the religious habit in the Domini¬ 
can order; De Souza changing his baptismal name of Ma¬ 
nuel for that of Louis. He had already acquired a good 
share of literature, and had written an elegant preface to the 
Latin poems of Falcone. He was, therefore, chosen to 
write the history of his order in Portugal in the vernacular 
tongue, of which he printed the first volume, folio, in 1623. 
From his papers two other volumes were printed after his 
death. He was author also of the “ Life of Dorn. Bartholo¬ 
mew, one of the Martyrs,” printed in 1619, and of which a 
French translation has been given; and “ A History of John 
III. King of Portugal,” which has not been published. De 
Souza is accounted one of the best writers of his country. 
SOUZA, a river of Portugal, in the province of Entre 
Minho e Douro, which joins the Douro about 9 miles from 
its mouth. 
SOUZEL, a town of Portugal, in the province of Alen- 
tejo; 6 miles north-north-west of Estremos. Population 
2000. 
SOW, s. [pu^a, Sax.; sugga, Su. Goth.; from so. Ihre.] 
A female pig; the female of a boar. 
A sow beneath an oak shall lie along. 
All white herself, and w'hite her thirty young. Dryden. 
Perhaps from sow came sowen, swen, swine. —An oblong 
mass of lead. Sherwood. 
With clothes upon her head. 
That they weigh a sow of lead. Shelton. 
[ Millepeda , Lat.] An insect; a millepede. Ainsworth. 
To SOW, v. n. [saian, M. Goth.; saa, Su. Goth.; 
papan, Sax.] To scatter seed in order to a harvest.—He 
that soweth to his flesh, shall reap corruption; but he that 
soweth to the spirit, shall reap life everlasting. Gal. 
To SOW, v. a. part. pass. sown. To scatter in the 
ground in order to growth ; to propagate by seed. 
Like was not to be found. 
Save in that soil where all good things did grow 
And freely sprung out of the fruitful ground 
As incorrupted nature did them sow. Spenser. 
When to turn 
The fruitful soil, and when to sow the corn, 
I sing, Mecaenas. Dryden. 
To spread; to propagate.—To sow a jangling noise of 
words unknown. Milton . 
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