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dinner, and receiving as their fee the cups, also should be 

 mentioned. This custom can be traced back as far as the 

 reign of Richard II., when the citizens of London claimed 

 not only that their Mayor and Recorder should present cups 

 of wine, but that they, the citizens, should serve in the 

 butlery. They also claimed to serve in the buttery, a duty 

 which was shared with the Mayor and burgesses of Oxford. 

 The last occasion on which a cup of wine was presented 

 by the Lord Mayor was at the coronation of George IV. 



Notes on Cinque Ports. 



In Anglo-Saxon times there were three — viz., Dover, 

 Sandwich, and Romney. William the Conqueror added 

 Hastings and Hythe ; and because Hastings was the place 

 of his victory, he granted special privileges upon it, and 

 made it the head and chief of the Cinque Ports. These 

 were confirmed by charters of Henry I. and Edward I. 

 Winchelsea and Rye were allowed nearly, but not quite, all 

 the privileges belonging to the other five. In place of the 

 Saxon terms of Aldermen and Freemen, the Cinque Ports 

 rejoiced in ''jurists" and "barons." This last until the 

 Reform Bill was the title of an M.P. of any of the Cinque 

 Ports. 



In the reign of Henry VIII. it was ordered that " everie 

 person who goeth into the navy of the Portis shall have a 

 cote of white cotyn with a red crosse and the arms of the 

 Portis underneath ; that is to say, the halfe lyon and the 

 halfe ship." And at the coronation of James I. it was 

 ordered that the dress of the canopy-bearers should be " a 

 scarlet gowne downe to the ancle, citizen's fashion, faced 

 crymson satteen, Gascaine hose, velvett shoes, and black 

 velvett capes." 



The barons performed their duties at George IV.'s coron- 

 ation, but not at William IV.'s. 



