SHIPPING OF THE CINQUE PORTS ad. 



1278. 



At ech time that the King passeth over the sea, the Ports 

 ought to rigge up fiftie and seven ships, (whereof every- 

 one to have twentie armed souldiers) and to mainteine j 

 them at their owne costes, by the space of fifteene dayes j 

 together. 



And thus it stoode with the Ports for their generall 1278. ^ 



charge, in the sixt yeere of his reigne, for then was this '■ 



Chartre sealed. But as touching the particular burthen of . 



ech one, I have seene two divers testimonies, of which the I 



first is a note in French (bearing the countenance of a 

 Record) and is intituled, to have bene renued in the two 

 and twentie yeere of the Reigne of the same king, by 

 Stephan Penchester, then Constable of Dover Castle, in j 



which the particular charge is set downe in this maner. j 



The Port of Hastings ought to finde three ships. I 



The lowie of Pevensey, one. ; 



Bulverhithe and Petit Jahn, one. i 



Bekesborne in Kent, seven. 



Grenche at Gillingham in Kent, two men and \ 



armour, with the ships of Hastings. ] 



The towne of Rie, five. j 



To it was Tenterdene annexed, in the time of King ; 



Henrie the sixt. 

 The towne of Winchelsey, tenne. : 



The Port of Rumney, foure. J 



Lydde, seven. | 



The Port of Hythe, five. 

 The Port of Dover, nineteene. 



The towne of Folkestone, seven. •; 



The towne of Feversham, seven. ] 



The Port of Sandwich, with Stonor, Fordwich, Dale, 

 &c. five. 

 These ships they ought to finde upon fortie dayes [I. 19.] ' ' 

 summons, armed and arrayed at their owne charge, and 

 in ech of them twentie men, besides the Master of the \ 



Mariners : all which they shall likewise mainteine five 

 dayes together at their owne costs, giving to the Maister 

 sixe pence by the day, to the Constable sixe pence, and to 



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