Lowestoft and the Suffolk North Sea coast were placed on alert in 1545 not because the French fleet was expected to operate that far north, but because the comprehensive nature of the English coastal defence response in that year extended even to the North Sea shore. The watch at Lowestoft was part of a nationwide mobilisation that demonstrated the Tudor state capacity to coordinate defence across the full length of the English coastline.
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