By Christopher Davson Reproduced from a “Rye’s Own” article of 1973 Westminster prides itself on its nickname the “Mother of Parliaments” — not because it was the first democratic assembly (even the Greeks had a word for that!) but because that Parliament which Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and victor of the battle of … Continue reading Grandmother Of Parliaments
Tag: Cinque Ports Confederation
Cinque Ports Confederation runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. Readers can move between “The Port of Rye”, “Hastings – Cinque Port”, and “Evolution of the Sailing Ship Through Seals”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine. Together they offer a characterful route through the magazine’s record of local life, memory and change.
Evolution of the Sailing Ship Through Seals
The Common seals of the Cinque Ports and a number of other ports are of interest and value in understanding the evolution of European sailing ships in the Middle Ages.
Hastings – Cinque Port
The 1840 Sussex Directory claimed that Hastings was the head of the Cinque Ports Confederation before telling us it was a Corporate and Parliamentary Borough, demonstrating the importance still placed in the Cinque Ports heritage at that time, even though the Kent & Sussex fleet’s days of glory were well over by the time of … Continue reading Hastings – Cinque Port
The Cinque Ports
CORONATION PRIVILEGES By Kenneth Clarke Although the origins of the Cinque Ports are unknown, their individual beginnings preceded the Norman Conquest, for the Domesday Book records that during the reign of Edward the Confessor the burgesses of Dover, Sandwich and Romney were liable to supply to ‘the King, once in the year.
The Port of Rye
The port was always used for commerce as well as military purposes. The Romans shipped much of their iron exports from it, for even in Roman days the Weald of Kent and Sussex were producing iron.