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==History== [[File:The Old Town Hall South Street Seaford BN25 1HP (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|The [[Old Town Hall, Seaford|Old Town Hall]]]] In 1620 and 1624, the bailiff of Seaford was William Levett,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lower |first=Mark Antony |authorlink=Mark Antony Lower |title=Memorials of the Town, Parish, and Cinque-port of Seaford, Historical and Antiquarian |journal=Sussex Archaeological Collections |volume=7 |year=1854 |page=90 |doi=10.5284/1085158 |url=https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-285-1/dissemination/pdf/Vol_07_1854/SAC007_Lower.pdf |doi-access=free}}</ref> of an [[Anglo-Normans|Anglo-Norman]] family long seated in Sussex.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}} William Levett of Seaford owned the Bunces and Stonehouse manors in [[Warbleton]], probably inheriting them from his father John Levett, who died in 1607. Levett sold the estates in 1628 and died in 1635, his will being filed in [[Hastings]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=179-amss&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18|title=The Discovery Service|first=The National|last=Archives|access-date=27 November 2008|archive-date=10 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810155226/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=179-amss&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Old Town Hall, Seaford|Old Town Hall]] in South Street was the meeting place of the borough council, which had the power to elect two members of parliament, until the implementation of the [[Reform Act 1832]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The History of Politics: The Rotten Boroughs of England |url=https://juliaherdman.com/2017/04/21/history-of-politics-the-rotten-boroughs-of-england/ |website=Julia Herdman Books |date=21 April 2017 |access-date=10 August 2023}}</ref> The [[Levett]] family intermarried with other Sussex families, including the Gildredges, the Eversfields, the Popes, the Ashburnhams, the Adamses, and the Chaloners. A seal with his arms belonging to John de Livet, Lord of Firle, was found at Eastbourne in 1851.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rIHAAAAQAAJ|title=A handbook for East-Bourne and Seaford, and the neighbourhood|first=George Frederick|last=Chambers|date=1 January 1885|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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