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that country under a drifter fubmiflton to his govern¬ 
ment j bu,t king John was the firft who granted the pri¬ 
vileges to thofe ports, which they ftill enjoy: however, 
it was upon condition that they fliould provide a certain 
number of (hips at their own charge for forty days, as 
often as the king fliould have occaflon for them in the 
wars, he being then under a neceflity of having a navy 
for pafling into Normandy, to recover that dukedom 
which he had loft. And this fervice the barons of the 
cinque ports acknowledged and performed, upon the 
king’s fummons, attended with their (hips the time limited 
at their proper colts, and (laying as long after as the 
kins pleafed at his own charge. Somner of Roman Ports 
in Kent. 
The cinque-ports, as we now account them, are, 
Dover, Sandwich, Romney, Winchelfea, and Rye; and 
to thefe we m,ay add Hythe and Haftings, which are rec¬ 
koned as part or members of the cinque-ports : though by 
the firft inftitution it is (aid that Winchelfea and Rye 
were added as members, and that the others were the 
cinque-ports : there are al(o leveral other towns-adjoin¬ 
ing that have the privileges of the points. Thefe cinque- 
ports ha^e certain franchifes to hold pleas, &c. and the 
king’s writs do not run there ; but on a judgment in any 
of the king’s courts, if the defendant hath no goods, See. 
except in the ports, the plaintiff may get the records cer¬ 
tified into chancery, and from thence fent by mittimus 
to the lord warden to make execution. 4 Inft. 223. The 
conftable of Dover caftle is lord warden of the cinque- 
ports. And there are feveral courts within the cinque- 
ports; one before the conftable, others within the ports 
themfelves, before the mayors and jurats; another, which 
is called curia quinque portuum apud Shepway : there is 
likewife a court of chancery, in the cinque ports, to 
decide matters of equity ; but no original writs iffue 
thence. 1 Dannj. Abr. 793. the jurifdiftion of the cinque- 
ports is general, extending to perfonal, real, and mixed 
aftions: and, if any erroneous judgment is given in the 
cinque-ports before any of the mayors and jurats, error 
lies according to the cuftom, by bill in nature of error, 
before the lord warden of the ciqque-povts, in his court 
of Shepway. And in thefe cafes the mayor and jurats 
may be fined, and the mayor removed. Cromp. Jurifd. 138. 
•—and error lies from the court of Shepway to the court 
of king’s- bench, jenk. 71. 1 Sid. 356. 
It has been oblerved that the cinque-ports are not jura 
regalia, like counties palatine, but are parcel of the county 
of Kent: fo that if a writ be brought againft one for land 
within the cinque ports, and he appears and pleads to it, 
and judgment is given againft him in the common pleas, 
this judgment (hall bind him; for the land is not exempted 
out of the county, and the tenant may waive the benefit 
of his privilege. Wood's Inft. 5x9. The cinque ports can¬ 
not award procefs of outlawry. Cro. Eliz. y 10. And a 
quo-minus lies to the cinque-ports. If a man is imprifoned 
at Dover by the lord warden,.an habeas corpus may be 
iilued ; tor the privilege that the king’s writ lies not there 
is intended between party and party, and there can be no 
fuel) privilege againft the king ; and an habeas corpus is 
3x prerogative writ, by which the king demands an ac¬ 
count of the liberty of the fubjeft.. 1 Nelf Abr.ttW- Cer¬ 
tiorari lies to the cinque-ports, to remove indidtments; 
and the jurifdiftion that bre-u. dom regis non eurrit is only 
in civil caufes between party and party. 2 Hawk. P. C.c. 27. 
CIN'QUE-SPO 1 TED, a.dj. Having five (pots ; 
On her left bread 
A mole, cinque-fpotted , like the crimfon drops 
1 ’ th’ bottom of a cowllip. Shakefpeare. 
CIN'QUE-YIELAS, a town of Portugal, in the pro¬ 
vince of Beira : two leagues north-eaft of Almeida. 
CIN'QUEL, a town of the ifland of Sumatra, on the 
weftern coalt of a river of the fame name. 
CINTEGABEL'LE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Garonne, and chief place of a canton, 
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in the diftrift of Muret, fituated on the Arriege: (ixteen 
miles fouth of Touloufe. 
CTNTRA, a town of Portugal, in Eftramadura, fituated 
between the mountains of Cintra, anciently called tlie 
Mountains of the Moon, at the mouth of the Tagus. 
Here was a palace built by the Moors, which was de- 
(troyed by an earthquake in 1653, and rebuilt by king 
Jofeph in the fame ftyle; it contains four parifli churches, 
and one thouland nine hundred inhabitants : thirteen 
miles north-well ofLilbon. 
Cl'NUS or Cynus, a famous civilian of Piftoia in the 
fourteenth century. His commentary on the code was 
finiflied in 1313: healfo wrote on fome parts of thedigeft. 
He was no lefs faifious for his Italian poems; and is 
ranked among thofe who firft gave graces to the Tufcan. 
lyric poetry. 
Cl'NYRA, in the Jewifn antiquities, a mufical inftru- 
ment. This, and the Hebrew cinnor, which is generally 
tranfiated citbera, lyra , pfalterium, are the fame. It was 
made of wood, andiwas ufed in the temple of jerufalem. 
Jofephus fays that the cinyra of the temple had ten firings, 
and that it was touched with a bow. In another place he 
fay" that.Solomon made a great number of them with a 
precious kind of metal called eledrum. 
CTNYRAS, in fabulous hiftory, a king of Cyprus, 
fon of Paphus. He married Cenchreis, by whom he had 
a daughter called Myrra. Myrra fell in love with her 
father, and in the abfence of her mother (he introduced 
lierfelf into his bed by means of her nurfe. Cinyras had 
by her a fon called Adonis; and when he knew the inceft 
he had committed, he attempted to (tab his daughter, 
who efcaped his purfuit an.d fled to Arabia, where, after 
(lie had brought forth, (lie was changed into a tree which 
(till bears her name. Cinyras, according to fonle, (tab¬ 
bed himfelf. Ovid. 
CINZA'NO, a town of Italy, in the principality of Pied¬ 
mont : five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Chivazzo. 
CI'ON,/. [Jion, or feion, French.] A fprout; a flioott 
from a plant, or tree.—We have reafon to cool our raging 
motions, our Carnal (tings, our unbitted lufts ; whereof I 
take this, that you call love, to be a feft or cion. Shakefpeare. 
—The (lately Caledonian oak, newly fettled in his tri¬ 
umphant throne, begirt with cions of his own royal item. 
How el. —The (hoot or fprout of the tree engrafted or in¬ 
ferred on the (lock of another.—The cion over-ruleth the 
ftoc'k ; and the dock is but paflive, and giveth aliment, but 
no motion, to the graft. Bacon. See the article Grafting 
CIO'NIS, [from the uvula.] A difealed enlarge, 
ment and painful fwelling of the uvula. 
CIOTA'T (La), a feaport town of France; in the de~ 
partment of the mouths of the Rhone, and chief place of 
a canton, in the diftrift of Marfeilles, fituated at the bot¬ 
tom of a bay, in the Mediterranean : in a country which 
produces delicious fruit, oil, and excellent wine. The 
harbour is in the form of a horfe-lhoe, and defended with 
feveral forts: four leagues fouth-eaft of Marfeilles, and 
feven and a half fouth-fouth-eaft, of Aix. Lat. 43. 10. N. 
Ion. 23. 17. E. Ferro. 
CTPSER,/ [ cbifre , Fr. zlfra , Ital. cifra, low Latin, 
from an oriental root.] An arithmetical charafter, by 
which fome number is noted ; a figure.—An arithmetical 
maik, which. Handing for nothing itfelf, increafes the- 
value of the other figures. See Arithmetic. —As, in 
accounts, ciphers and figures pafs for real (tuns, fo nanies 
pafs for things. South. —An intertexture of letters en¬ 
graved ufually on boxes or plate, or on the pannels of 
carriages : 
Troy flamed in burni(h’d gold ; and o r er the throne, 
Arms and the man in golden ciphers (hone. Pope. 
A charafter in general.—In Succeeding times this wiidom 
began to be written'in ciphers and charafter?, and letters 
bearing the form of creatures. Raleigh .—A fecret or occult 
manner of writing, or the key to it : 
This book, as long-liv’d as the elements; 
In cipher writ, or new-made idioms. Donne. 
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