43© A. D. 1277. 



declared to be *. The Injuftice and inexpediency of fome parts of 

 that natute having, perhaps filently, rendered the whole of it inefficient, 

 the king now iffued an order by his own authority, wherein, after re- 

 capitulating fome parts of the flatute, viz. that every Jew, male or fe- 

 male, above twelve years of age, was to pay annually three pennies to 

 the king ; that they were to live only in thofe cities and burghs, where- 

 in there was an arch-chirographer of the Jews, who feems to have been 

 an officer appointed to draw up, and regifter, their fecurities ; and that 

 all Jews of above feven years of age, fliould wear a yellow diftinguifhing 

 badge, confpicuoufly placed upon their upper garments, he defires that 

 the tax of three pennies of head money, and all the arrears of it, may be 

 flridly levied. [F^ikra, V. ii,p. 83.] 



1278, June 17'" — King Edward having received very confiderable af- 

 fi fiance from the Cinque ports in his war againfl the Welfh, gratified 

 them with a charter, wherein he refers to liberties they enjoyed in the 

 times of Edward the ConfefTor, William I, William II, Henry II, Rich- 

 ard I, John, and Henry III. The fervice required of them by the king, 

 is fixed at fifty-feven lliips, properly manned, for fifteen days. And in 

 return, they are favoured with exemption from prifage upon the wines 

 imported in their own trade, and with fome other immunities, [yeakts 

 Charters of the Cinque ports. ~\ 



According to Bradon, who flourifhed in the reign of Henry III, the 

 ports originally aflbciated in the duty of providing Ihips for the pubUc 

 fervice, and in the enjoyment of the privileges and exemptions granted 

 in return for their fervices, were Raftings, Hythe, Rumney, Dover, and 

 Sandwich ; and from their number, being ^w, was derived the colle<ftive 

 appellation o? Cinque ports, which continued in ufe after the acceflion of 

 other ports rendered it improper. Winchelfea and Rye were added 

 afterwards, probably in the reign of Edward I, and many more as mem- 

 bers. Their names have been varioufly fl;ated ; and probably they have 

 really varied, according to the fiuduating circumfiances of the places. 



According to a cuftumal of the 

 town of Hythe, of a later age than 

 that of Edward If, 

 Hailings was to provide 21 fhips. 

 Its members wereSeaford, 



According to a lift, dated in the 

 22** year of Edward I, 

 Ilaftings provided - 3 ftiips. 

 The Lowie of Pevenfey, i 

 Bulverhithe and Petit jahn, i 



* The ftatiite, faij to be of uncertain date (See order. Tliere is a tranflation of the llatute in 



S'.alutis at I'lrge, Index, -vo. jfe-ws, and j4ppendix, Toi>ry''s yJnglia JiiJiiica, />. 20O. 



/>. 28), is dated by Prynne \_Demurrer, part i, f In the reign of Richard II \vc find an order 



f>- 37] '" tl'C third year of Edw. I, wherein he to fit out the Cinque-port i\cet of Jifly-fevai vcfTeis, 



dificrs from Lord Coke. It permitted the Jews armed and properly anayed, willi a mafter and 



to be mcrciianls, labourers, and farmers, but pro- tiut-iity men in each, to ferve fifteen days after their 



liibittd then, from taking any intereft for money, arrival at Briftol, the port of rendezvous, at their 



and rcHored to thofe Clirillians, who had niort- own cxpenfe, and allcrwards aa long as the king 



gaged their lands to Jews in fecurity for money fliould rcipiirc at his expenfe, though only the pay 



lent, the chief hoiife and half of the lands. Thcfc, of the men is fpccified ; for all which charters of 



being the mod obvious unjuft, and inexpedient, former kings arc referred to. [^Fai/era, K vii, />. 



parti of the (latulc, arc not mentioned in the king's 784 ; fee aUoj». Sj^.; and F. x,/>. 108.] 



