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Cinque Ports
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
The five ports of Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich, to which were added Winchelsea and Rye, which possessed certain privileges in return for supplying the royal power with a navy; the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is only an honorary dignity.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Cinque Ports'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/cinque-ports.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.