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the benefactors to the said port, likewise for the souls of those 

 who have departed from this light, also for the souls of the 

 fathers, brethren, and sisters and of our benefactors, in all future 

 time." Another in 24 Henry VI. sent out by the bailiffs and 

 burgesses notifying the granting by the Archbishop of Canterbury 

 and the Bishop of Sarum of 40 days of pardon, and the 

 engagement by certain " pryors and chapeleyns " of the town for 

 themselves and their successors for evermore to pray for all those 

 that gave or bequeathed to the work of the harbour gold, cattle, 

 meat, drink, or service ; and a third, dated July 4th, 1446, of the 

 Bishop of Winchester, cardinal of England, granting 100 days 

 indulgence to contributors to the work "being penitent." The 

 Appendix to the Historical Manuscripts Commission Report, to 

 which I have before alluded, gives a description of documents 

 relating to these or similar indulgences, and such-like, for the 

 givers of alms for the harbour, from which it appears that the alms 

 that were sought were not only money, but that " ony good broche 

 or ryng, brokyn or hool, gold or sylvere," " or jowel, or eny other 

 good " would be all acceptable. One of the most curious, perhaps, 

 of these documents is a letter from John Greyve, who appears to 

 have been the "proketour-generall" for Kent and Essex "for to gader 

 the almesse to the haven makying of Bry deport town," giving an 

 account of his proceedings, and more particularly relating at great 

 length how he had been deceived by a man of Loders who had 

 engaged to help him in his work, but had proved false. But we 

 may presume that either there was not enough money collected for 

 the purpose by all these means, or that the harbour had fallen into 

 so much disrepair as not to be of use, as in Leland's and Camden's 

 time there appears to have been none, the former saying " Nature 

 hath so set this ryver mouth in a valley bytwixt two hillcs, that 

 with cost the se might be brought in, and there an haven made," 

 and the latter, " at the mouth of the river Nature has projected a 

 very commodious place for an harbour, and seems to call upon 

 Art and Industry to finish it." And the author of the additions 

 to Camden adds, "And these, it was believ'd, wou'd have effected 



